Word: reaping
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...points where electrical contacts are made. Meanwhile production in South Africa, the world's leading source of gold, has been declining, and the Soviet Union has been selling little of its growing gold cache in the West. Now that the price is up, Moscow may sell more-and reap the riches...
...surely, in an hour and a half of head-butting with Presidential Advisor Henry Kissinger, Bok and the other presidents must have realized that this road of protest has been travelled many times before. It is difficult to see how yet another trip down the beaten path could reap more tangible results than previously...
George McGovern's initial campaign plans did not include Ohio. The Buckeye state, whose primary is May 2, seemed owned by Edmund Muskie. But last week McGovern announced that he would spend a full week in Ohio hoping to reap a rich harvest among the state's 153 convention votes. The advice that he assuredly could came from three seniors at Harvard University...
...even as he was framed by the TV insignia of not only Shell ("our products perform") but Chevrolet ("...see the U.S.A.")--Chaplin was touched. After years of exile self-imposed after more than a decade of government harassment and two decades of press scandal-mongering, he had returned to reap the honor of an industry which, with its new "enlightened" veneer, is always up for the chance to acquire a "humane" credential. He gave the 44th annual presentation of awards an emotional kick it really couldn't handle, and thus made the show harder for a slumming viewer to enjoy...
Eastern Europeans generally have more money to spend than opportunity to spend it, and the new freedom to travel-even within the bloc-is a major concession, for which the governments will reap some popular credit. But there may be a few unexpected side effects. Polish citizens, for instance, will be able to see Western television on East German sets, and will probably return home discontented after they see the range of goods available in the shops of more prosperous East Berlin...