Word: reaping
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...This federal statute provides incentives for companies to develop drugs for rare diseases that might otherwise be overlooked by firms seeking more lucrative markets. Meyers is now back in Washington lobbying for a revision in the law. She wants to close a loophole that has allowed companies to reap windfall profits and leaves the orphan drugs so expensive that a new treatment can be out of the reach of most American families...
...felt that our house crew was currently at a competitive disadvantage with outdated oars," Columbus said. "Since dozens of Winthrop students reap the benefits of this character-building institution, we tried to channel some funds this...
...Tricky Two-Step. Complex sentences are a duplicitous politician's delight. Suppose a candidate plans to oppose kumquat subsidies. Saying so outright to a group of farmers would reap no votes -- just permanent enmity. Instead, the aspirant might try to finesse it like this: "No one in the Senate is more keenly aware of the courage and the grit of kumquat growers than myself, but we should never lose sight of how the federal deficit is robbing our children." It is an example of that classic two-step -- a sonorous lie followed by a fleeting glimpse of unpleasant reality...
Although the immediate credit goes to the painstaking work of DINCOTE, Peru's anti-terrorism squad, Fujimori will reap the biggest reward. He had promised to pacify the country by the time his term ends in 1995. But he lost international support in April, when he unilaterally dissolved Peru's Congress, shut down the courts and suspended the constitution -- largely in the name of thwarting Shining Path. Frustrated Peruvians approved, but the U.S. was so angry that it suspended aid. Now, in the congressional elections that Fujimori has called for Nov. 22, candidates who back him are expected...
...rethink the military and reap a peace dividend...