Word: reapings
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...supermarkets such as Sears and Shearson/American Express are offering a wide variety of banking services, and traditional firms, ranging in size from San Francisco's BankAmerica (assets: $124 billion) to General Bancshares of St. Louis ($1.8 billion), are roaming far outside their old territory. Consumers are likely to reap better services and lower prices from the resulting competition...
Company founders fortunate enough not only to reap but also to keep their winnings sometimes find the attention they receive to be unsettling. The new multimillionaires begin to worry about kidnap attempts on themselves and their families. They erect security fences around their homes, install elaborate burglar alarms and buy faster cars. Sy Merns, founder of Syms, a chain of eleven off-price clothing stores mostly in the Northeast, cashed in some $33 million worth of shares when his company went public in September, and his stock holdings are estimated at more than $110 million. Because of concerns about...
...Yuri Andropov have not only profoundly affected the news of this year but will undoubtedly have an impact on the news of next year and probably for many years to come. Depicting them back to back implies a continuity for catastrophe. Face to face would imply communication, which could reap a harvest of hope for peace on earth to men of good will...
...from British control. When the attempt failed, so did the dictatorship. Somewhat the same fate of internal overthrow is feared by the regimes of Syria and Jordan, and to maintain their positions they are expending much of their time and energy to suppress these fundamentalist sects. Israel can now reap the indirect reward, if it so desires...
...Culture, I've always said, is much like fertilizer in that for it to do any good, you have to spread it around." Vous can certainly guess who said that. Miss Piggy, but of course. And what she meant was "As a sow shows, so shall she reap." Thus, this week she will open an exhibit of some thoroughly priceless paintings at the Berry-Hill Galleries in New York City. Titled "Miss Piggy's Art Masterpieces: Treasures from the Kermitage Collection," the show will feature such dubious classics as Rodin's The Smooch, Botticelli...