Word: reaping
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...scoreless third stanza, the RPI band--apparently giving up on victory--urged its team to reap vengeance on the Ivy Leaguers by other means...
...each must be new to travelling and to the world squash circuit to reap maximum benefit from the novel travel experience...
According to the BSA's philosophy, the way to reap positive results is to maintain a constant "watchdog" vigil, sustaining pressure on the administration...
...corporations face risks even as they reap the rewards of Star Wars. The program could be scaled back or scuttled by the next Congress or President. "Companies can get geared up for a letdown," says Paul Nisbet, who follows the defense business for Prudential-Bache Securities. Also worrisome is the mounting opposition to SDI at the universities where much of the basic research will be done. Campus critics, including many scientists, argue that Star Wars is technologically unworkable and wasteful: a pie in the sky and a pork barrel on the ground...
Despite these arguments, some will still argue that it is simply immoral for the university to "invest in apartheid" and reap the benefits of such an unjust regime through the dividends received from these companies. In fact, the vast majority of the firms in our portfolio do less than one percent of their total business in South Africa. Any profits that are repatriated from from that country and find their way into company dividends make up only a tiny portion of the funds we receive from our equity holdings. Those who feel that even this amount is enough to condemn...