Word: reaping
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...suggest that the government buy out each company's stockholders and have the dividends accrue to the public. Yet at another point Galbraith changes horses and suggests that "land is tilled well only by men and women who are encouraged by high prices and dissuaded by low prices, who reap the rewards of their toil, suffer the penalties of their own sloth...
Hunt is looking toward the long-term future in terms of a program at Harvard. The high school women's track programs around the country have been improving for several years, he said, and the colleges are just beginning to reap the benefits...
Overall, the package seemed well designed to wend its way past the broadest political hazards. It appeases some conservatives by letting oil and gas prices rise?but does not offend liberals by removing controls completely or allowing the producers to reap higher profits. It encourages coal production and conversion, as well as a speedier expansion of nuclear power plants, without lifting environmental safeguards...
...reserves. But as long as they face a serious threat of breakup, they will not make the investments required. In return for a pledge to stop dismemberment, Carter should extract a promise that the companies will devote a large share of the profits they would reap from price decontrol to exploration and development of solar, nuclear and synthetic fuels...
...raquetwomen, coming off impressive records last spring (10-1) and this fall (7-2), hope to reap even greater success this spring against their formidable competition in the Ivy-Seven Sisters League...