Word: reaping
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...siblings can indeed be as powerful an influence on one another as all the research suggests, are all siblings created at least potentially equal? What about half-sibs and stepsibs? Do they reap--and confer--the same benefits? Research findings are a bit scattered on this, if only because shared or reconstituted families can be so complicated. A dysfunctional home in which parents and siblings hunker behind barricades alongside the ones they're biologically closest to does not lend itself to good sibling ties. Well-blended families, on the other hand, may produce step- or half-siblings who are extraordinarily...
...decade before business really starts to boom in some of the secondary cities now being targeted?metropolises like Hefei, Harbin and Chengdu. But early movers such as InterContinental hope to reap the benefits of choice locations and greater brand awareness by getting there first. Eric Wong, a property-sector analyst for UBS Hong Kong, observes: "If I'm a big hotel company, the question is, should I wait ten years to plant my flag in China now? The big chains have all decided, and are in the midst of a flag-planting race...
Administrators have yet to announce the total dollar figure they seek to raise, though they expect it will exceed the last campaign, which ended in 1999 and yielded $2.6 billion. A similar seven-year campaign launched today would reap at least $4.2 billion, based on a higher-education inflation rate of 3.5 percent...
...Nagin to win, he'll have to reap support from the white voters and business types who, after helping elect him four years ago, defected in large numbers this time around to the camp of third-place finisher Ron Forman, president and CEO of the Audubon Nature Institute. But Forman endorsed Landrieu Monday afternoon, despite the fact that Landrieu's long family affiliation with Democratic politics could be a bitter pill for many of Forman's Republican followers...
...past year, Saigon has seen some new competition for foreign dollars. As international corporations seek alternatives to China's rising labor costs, Vietnam's north-where wages are cheaper than both southern Vietnam and coastal China-is starting to reap the benefits of slow but steady free-market reforms. Last year, Hanoi for the first time overtook Ho Chi Minh City in FDI, capturing $1.6 billion of the total $6.2 billion. Saigon's share was $738 million. In the past five years, numerous foreign manufacturers have set up shop in the capital, among them Fujitsu, LG Electronics and Daewoo. "People...