Word: reaping
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Aaron himself applauded the decision, noting that he would reap a better promotional payoff if he surpassed Ruth at home. But he offered a more persuasive and personal reason as well. "In ten years," said Aaron, "I'd like to be able to walk out of my home in Atlanta some afternoon and say, 'That's where I broke Babe Ruth's record.' I don't want to have to take a plane to Cincinnati...
More than one American entrepreneur has befriended the Greek military regime, and industrialists reap large profits at the expense of Greek laborers. Multi-national corporations, including Exxon, Coca-Cola (both represented by Pappas), Dow Chemical and Alcoa, are exempt from a variety of taxes and duties. This is specified in the Greek constitution. Trade unions have been scrapped or stripped of power by the government, in order to maintain the low wages that attract foreign monopolists. Such economic tactics have driven about 250,000 workers to seek jobs in West Germany...
...still fit through the Big Ditch, and for those vessels the sailing time between Persian Gulf ports and Western Europe could be cut to about 14 days from the present 30 days around the Cape of Good Hope. In addition, traders as far away as India and Pakistan would reap immediate shipping benefits from the canal's unblocking...
...manufacturers, truck drivers and jet pilots understand that Nixon did not bring on the Arab oil embargo, they also understand that the leadership in the energy crisis has been dismal to nonexistent until now. Ironically, nobody has insisted on presidential sovereignty in crisis management more than Nixon. He will reap the credit-and the blame. -Then there are the Republican Senators and Congressmen who are up for re-election next fall. Many of them are far more frightened and pessimistic about their own chances than they were even a month ago. Suddenly it has been discerned that...
...delicate" because South Africa's racist government allows the corporations to reap amazingly high profits and to exploit its seemingly inexhaustible resources heavily, in return for the foreign investment which enhances its economic and political muscle...