Word: reaping
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...Russians already marketing a possibly uneconomical SST and worrying about selling it, why should the U.S. taxpayer be asked to join the gamble? On the other hand, if the plane was as surefire a moneymaker as its backers claimed, why not let free enterprise take the risk and reap the profits...
...protect" withdrawing U.S. troops, even though that has been the longer-range justification advanced most often by the Administration. From the start, Richard Nixon's own top advisers described Lam Son-and the parallel thrust by 20,000 ARVN troops into Cambodia-mainly as an opportunity to reap some short-term gains. One important objective was to shore up the embattled regime in Cambodia by taking further pressure off the Cambodian army to the south. Another was to blunt Communist capability to wage offensives in South Viet Nam, particularly any attack that might upset two approaching presidential elections: Nguyen...
...schools are classified as "small colleges" their athletes do not command the kind of publicity that is heaped on the big-college stars. Nonetheless, as the number of pro-basketball teams has grown from nine to 28 in the past nine years, scouts have found that thinking small can reap big rewards. Ask the world champion New York Knickerbockers. No fewer than three of their starting five-Walt Frazier of Southern Illinois, Willis Reed of Grambling and Dick Barnett of Tennessee State-are N.A.l.A. alumni. They all sharpened their skills in the prostyle brand of run-and-shoot that...
...Dean will have powers I've never had. She will be expected to take an interest in innovative projects for women. I have been working in several areas but without a specific mandate. She won't have to worry about housing and certain other administrative problems." The contract could reap positive benefits for Harvard women, depending on the Dean's initiative and powers of persuasion. But controversial reform seems unlikely without a great deal of student support...
...small and largely uneconomical. Nearly every country has its own assembly plants. Ford is the first American industrialist to offer a product designed especially for developing countries, to be produced on the basis of regional cooperation and duty-free import of components. His project would allow each country to reap the benefits of the economies of scale and specialization by sharing in a large market instead of having a small market all to itself. That is precisely the sort of industrial opportunity that farsighted Asian leaders, economists and businessmen have been seeking...