Word: reaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carter discovered, a unilateral policy of weapons-sale restraint can be bootless. But a policy that exalts a lack of restraint can likewise reap a whirlwind of unwanted, unpredictable challenges. If Reagan abandons any serious attempt to seek controls for the flow of weaponry, he will have given in to a danger that threatens American interests, with only the poor excuse that others...
...firms and households manage their assets and debts, Tobin developed the so-called "portfolio selection theory." The concept enables economists to trace the effects of monetary policies, interest rates and inflation on investment decisions. Before Tobin propounded his theory, economists usually assumed that people automatically tried to reap the biggest return for their investment dollars. Tobin showed that investors tend not just to seek a good return but to balance their holdings in accordance with the overall risks involved...
...Pudding should save about $65,000 in salaries and hopes to reap $20,000 on the restaurant rental, Hood said. Leases of the Pudding's theatre to the American Repertory Theater and other groups should bring the club an additional $30,000, he added...
...have sweltered through the hottest summer on record: wheat and corn have withered on the stalk. In addition, the weather played a cruel trick on farmers. When the grain was maturing and needed rain, the skies were cloudless. But as harvest time approached and dry weather was needed to reap the crop, thundershowers drenched the land. Corn, which is used widely for livestock feed, was badly affected in the flowering stage last month when it most needed moisture. Moreover, the unusual heat accelerated the growth of soybeans and barley so that everything had to be harvested at once. News from...
...lunches and dinners laced with vintage wines and intermittent sets of tennis, the partners added up the benefits and disadvantages of a merger. By selling out, most of them, like Henry Kaufman, the firm's well-known chief economist, would become millionaires several times over. Gutfreund stands to reap $25 million to $30 million as the biggest winner of the deal. But the Salomon partners would be losing the autonomy and privacy that comes from being controlling owners in the fast-moving world of bond trading and investment banking. "What we were giving up was sentimental and wonderful," said...