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...much lower costs of production per bushel or bale. The support price of corn, for example, is $1.25 a bushel, and the big producer can grow corn for less than 70? a bushel. Clearly, if the Government takes the stuff off his hands at $1.25, the efficient farmer can reap a bumper crop of money from growing corn that nobody needs...
...reminded of the Children's Crusade of 1212, of which Innocent III wrote: "The very children put us to shame." Children are the worst casualties of segregation, as long as it continues. If they can shame the Southerners and the Administration into more appropriate action, they will reap the benefits...
...Losses. Have-not governments usually justify their expropriations by claiming that they can do more for their people than foreigners. All too often, however, expropriation leads only to money-losing bureaucracy and featherbedding, frightens off new foreign investors and inspires the remaining ones to kick up their prices to reap a quick profit before they too are grabbed. Through its anti-Dutch expropriations, Indonesia lost its best technicians and much of its export earnings, and is now nearly bankrupt. Argentina's $365 million budget deficit is due almost wholly to its losses from the nationalized railways and utilities that...
...addition to being wrong in principle, the recent decision on the Cum Laude degree in General Studies (CLGS) will make it possible for certain unscrupulous alumni to reap a windfall profit. I myself intend to jest that by appending the once-noble phrase "Cum Laude" to my job and school applications, though it did not appear on my diploma...
...operating two squadrons of Russian-built MIG jet fighters from forward airstrips on the Tibetan plateau, while India has no combat fighters along the border. Confidently the Chinese announced that any Indian plane "violating Chinese airspace'' would be shot down. Said Peking: "The Indian troops will reap the evil fruit of their own sowing if they continue their attack...