Search Details

Word: reaping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...everything there is a season. And on Capitol Hill, where legislators are eager to reap the rewards of passing landmark health-care legislation, this is the season to sow -- discord, that is. Currently, five Senate and House committees, each with jurisdiction over health-care legislation, are jostling over the details of "purchasing alliances," "payroll taxes" and "employer mandates," all in an effort to invent the plan that will eventually supplant the Clintons' hopelessly complicated 1,342-page proposal. The lawmakers all know the President is intractable on only one point: universal coverage. Each senses that the American public will balk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bloody Clash of Egos | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

Aden Abdulrahman Mohammed believed the worst was over when the U.S. Marines arrived a year ago in his village just north of Baidoa. He had managed to reap a good harvest of sorghum, set up a water pump and construct a small chicken farm. Then suddenly in November, the bad old days returned. A dispute about two stolen camels between rival subclans quickly escalated into a hit-and-run war. When the shooting stopped, 15 villages, including Asha Farto, lay in smoking ruins. All the sorghum stored by the farmers had been looted or torched, and when the seasonal rains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to The Bad Old Days | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...been working hard all year, and hopefully this weekend we'll reap the fruits of that," said outgoing captain Tarik Campbell...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: Harvard to End Season at Brown, Yale | 3/4/1994 | See Source »

Outsiders reap important benefits too. Clinton will breathe a sigh of relief if NATO planes do not have to fly bombing runs over the fog-wrapped mountains of Bosnia. A peaceful withdrawal will let him and the rest of the West claim it is the result of their toughness in facing down the Serbs. Yeltsin will score political points at home for standing by his Slav friends and abroad for his seriousness as an international peacemaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Words Are Not Enough | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

With so much still to be decided, it is unclear whether Harvard cable subscribers will reap any benefits if the federally-mandated rate cut it approved...

Author: By Christopher Ortega, | Title: FCC Reduces Cable TV Rates | 2/25/1994 | See Source »

Previous | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | Next