Word: reapings
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...foreign competition, isolating them and stifling innovation. But in the early 1990s, the government began to slowly open up the economy. Anticipating an eventual onslaught from outsiders, the country's more far-sighted industrialists decided to modernize their operations. As a result, the most efficient businesses were able to reap outsized profits as India's economic growth began to accelerate, explains Delphine Cavalier, a Paris-based economist at BNP Paribas, which has advised Indian companies on M&A activity in Europe. "Today, with competition now mounting in India, those same groups are seeking to protect that profitability by taking their...
...feminist shpiel about getting to know her as a person and yada yada yada, but really, all you need to do is present yourself as a decent person and let her know you’re interested in her. You have to lay the groundwork if you want to reap the benefits, which means acting your age and practicing a little respect. Don’t imply you’re interested in a serious relationship if you’re not, and don’t treat her poorly if she does decide you’re worthy...
...auto world that has changed for Honda, not the other way around, and the company is poised to reap the benefits. Anyhow, Fukui believes that environmentally aware engineering is the only choice. "If we take a blind eye and neglect [the environment], eventually society will not let us exist," he says. "We have to solve these problems on our own." And if the solution can effortlessly take a curve at 100 m.p.h., that won't hurt a bit either...
There is a symbiosis between the culture of child anxiety and the politics of it. TV shows reap ratings off the fears of parents. The anxieties those shows stoke benefit politicians who campaign on law and order and who cast themselves as child protectors. Politicians like, say, Mark Foley, who made his political name as chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children. "Now, more than ever," Foley wrote with Senator Orrin Hatch in the Washington Times last year, "we need to stand together and unite cities, communities and states in the effort to stop the assault...
...Rather than cease coming to Cambodia, pedophiles will become smarter and also harder to track, as they branch out of Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville and into the provinces, such as the tourist town of Siem Reap and free-wheeling Koh Kong and Poipet on the Thai border, she warned. The majority of the country's rural areas don't have a specialized anti-trafficking and juvenile protection force like that operated by Keo Thea in the capital...