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...whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.' " A pause, and then the caucus room erupted into sustained applause...
After 1970, with Turkish production of the narcotic curtailed by U.S. pressure, the major dealers in the Triangle began large-scale exports. They had discovered that they could reap huge profits by selling their heroin-which they refine from the morphine derivative of raw opium-to the burgeoning markets among the G.I.s in Viet Nam and elsewhere in the West. One kilo of pure heroin-which sells for $300 at the Burma-Thai border-is worth at least $3,000 in Saigon, $10,000 in Marseille and $50,000 in New York City...
...better known as Abu Yusuf, faced these questions two months ago in an interview with L'Orient-Le Jour, the influential Beirut newspaper. Abu Yusuf, 44, replied that he did not expect his generation of Palestinians to defeat the Israelis. "We plant the seeds, and the others will reap the harvest," he said. "Most probably we'll all die, killed because we are confronting a fierce enemy. But the youth will replace...
Such surface mining is so mechanized, however, that it would provide few new jobs for Montanans. The state is therefore considering ways to reap greater benefits from the coal in the form of economic diversification, greater tax revenues and new jobs. The coal could be converted into natural gas at huge plants near the mining areas. Or it might be used to fuel a complex of 21 giant electric power plants in Montana, as recommended by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and some three dozen electric utilities. Then the electricity would be sent on long transmission lines to power-hungry...
Normally, there would be ample opportunity for all the people involved in the long food-production and marketing process to reap a reasonable profit. In the normal chain of events for beef, for example, the farmer sells his calf to a feedlot operator, who is one of the middlemen. He in turn fattens the animal and often sells it to a meatpacker for a few cents less per pound than he bought it. The feedlot operator hopes to profit by adding considerable weight to the animal in a relatively short time, but his problem lately has been that feed costs...