Word: reaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...near her and to reap her virginity at an apt moment, Humbert marries her mother Charlotte (Shirley Stoler); By chance, she hurtles down a flight of stairs to her death and Humbert is free to pursue his lascivious designs. To his shock and chagrin, Lolita seduces...
...President decided to act now in order to send a signal to oil producers and to the public that he wanted to get the Government out of the business of regulating the price and availability of energy. Another advantage of immediate decontrol is that it will probably reap the Government an additional $3 billion to $4 billion in tax revenues during this fiscal year. The White House can use that money to help keep down the size of the budget deficit, which is now projected to reach $60 billion this year, even without...
...industry argues that those who convert to gas can recoup their costs in one to five years and reap substantial savings thereafter...
...bloodbath in Psycho). Thus when she flees into a dark closet or abandoned sleeping car-where, of course, the evil one waits, knife at the ready-she must have a logical reason. She does: to act as avatar of the movie audience's delicious vulnerability. Also to reap big bucks for the merchants of low-budget menace who have revamped an honorable film formula...
...THAT DOES NOT excuse the University from looking for less dramatic, more subtle ways to fight tuition increases and to provide students more for their money. Morvay's salary paid for his $700,000 financial-aid find, and the seed sowed for Abernathy & company's energy study should reap many millions of dollars in savings in the next few decades. Financially, the University can afford to finance future deficit budgets by announcing more years of 13.2-per-cent tuition increases. Ethically, Mom, Dad, and Johnny deserve more than a term bill stamped with caveat emptor...