Word: reaping
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...must be compelled to play a far more active role in helping to remove the wails of discrimination in our country. Far too many of these corporations have spoken some very good words but continue to drag their feet when it comes to meeting their obligations, seemingly content to reap the profits extended to them by a system that exploits the majority of the country's people...
...sides sought to reap political advantage from the assassination. South African officials charged that SWAPO had killed the black leader as part of an assassination campaign, and alluded to a "captured document" that purportedly included plans to kill opposition black leaders in Namibia. In Zambia last week, SWAPO Leader Sam Nujoma, who at one time studied English under Kapuuo, denied that his organization had had anything to do with the killing. The murder, he suggested, might well have been the work of South African provocateurs...
...could well be that the existing French government is underestimating the depth of the chasm splitting those who labor and those who reap the benefits of the laborers' efforts. If those in power wish to avert another revolution at some point in the future, they must acknowledge the fact that economic forces in France are not yet static and that the old justifications for capitalism are losing their applicability. As the ineluctable economic law of increasing returns to scale mandates larger corporations and more monopolies in the name of efficiency, it seems increasingly unreasonable to allow so much power...
...plan fails, the opposition Labor Party will doubtless reap the benefits at the polls-but not until the 1981 elections. Ironically, one provision of the Likud economic plan might have changed the results of the election that brought Begin to power: the legalization of foreign bank accounts for Israeli citizens. The most prominent violators of the old law banning such accounts were former Labor Premier Yitzhak Rabin and his wife Leah. They admitted keeping $20,000 in Washington, D.C., banks, thus causing Rabin's resignation and contributing to the Likud victory...
...PAST several years rent control has protected Cambridge residents from the skyrocketing rents that an accelerating influx of students and young professionals would otherwise have created. But now the conversion of housing units into condominiums provides landlords with a means of by-passing rent control, allowing them to reap hefty profits while they evict occupants and reduce the amount of housing available to low- and middle-income tenants...