Word: reaping
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...plan is given the go-ahead, which may come as early as August, prospective buyers -- many of them probably nostalgic hippies -- will receive deeds and elaborate ownership certificates. And if all 6,272,640 square-inch parcels contained in the acre are sold, the town stands to reap a huge windfall...
...thieves still reap a rich harvest. Inadequate protection of U.S. patents, trademarks and copyrights costs the U.S. economy $80 billion in sales lost to pirates and 250,000 jobs every year, according to Gary Hoffman, an intellectual-property attorney at Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin in Washington. The computer industry loses upwards of $4 billion of revenues a year to illegal copying of software programs. Piracy of movies, books and recordings costs the entertainment business at least $4 billion annually...
...shame because Callahan barely got to reap the benefits of having his visage pasted up all over Harvard Square. After all, the questionable poster showed the back of Callahan's head, so that most admiring fans wouldn't have recognized him in person even if the 6-ft. 6-in. offensive lineman spat on them...
...family has farmed the same tiny plot of land in the Guatemalan highlands for generations, but Jacobo Mendez is the first to reap riches from a most unlikely source: "baby" zucchini. Far to the north, novelty-loving Americans are willing to pay seven times the price of the full-grown product for its freshly flowered miniature equivalent. Mendez doesn't care why -- he's just glad they do. "I have my own house now, and we all eat better," says Mendez, 34, a Cakchiquel Indian descended from the Mayans, who ruled the region a thousand years...
...Australia or New Zealand rather than live in a state with a newly empowered black majority. Simultaneously, though, he has speculated publicly about winning an eventual multiracial election by putting together a coalition of the National Party, Inkatha and perhaps some other moderate-to-conservative black groups that could reap a substantial share of the black vote, and an overwhelming majority of whites...