Word: reaping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...doesn’t take a Super Bowl, however, to reap the benefits of hosting national and international events...
...Gates and his guests, the ability to reap information about their enslaved ancestors who had been heretofore unknown was an emotional discovery, one that caused Winfrey and Goldberg to “break down and cry,” Gates said...
...rather, employees—should be financially compensated for their labor. Attending class is not compulsory for this very reason—it is assumed (wrongly?) that students will come to class without having been bribed, because it is they—not their professors—who reap the benefits of lecture...
...break or intersession to go and visit them (or get them to visit you, if their breaks are as impossibly long and awesome as my friends sometimes suggest).I’m usually a member of the school of thought that says get the bad stuff over with and reap the rewards afterwards, instead of the other way around. But in our situation, we get both immediate rewards and more than ample time to prepare for exams. It’s a best-of both-worlds, have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too situation, and there...
...page guidebook Marc Zawel, a first-time author and recent graduate of Cornell University, claims that he has consulted “the people who know best.” There is a system to be beat, so why shouldn’t Ivy Leaguers be the ones to reap the benefits of the million-dollar industry that has developed around the frenzy of college admissions? Prospective applicants might benefit from the book’s “key insights” on applying or they might not, but current students are not likely to find much...