Word: reaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Many of us invested out of our own private savings," Wolf said. "It is inevitable that the corporate cherry pickers arrive to reap the benefits...
...television shows, when people have the propensity to channel-surf and flip on the television in the middle of a program. If a kid had the savvy to turn on the television at 35 minutes after the hour, the ratings would be gone and he or she would reap the benefits of rating-less television...
Perhaps some day a compromise can be reached that would appease both the bottom-liners and the Crimson die-hards among us. Who knows? Maybe if a certain billionaire drop-out were to become interested, Harvard could reap the dual rewards of a greener future and a marketable moniker for the twenty-first century...
Famous professors are everybody's sweethearts, including the administration's, because they represent the pinnacle of their respective fields. We admire them because they have made names for themselves through scholarship; they give all of us would-be scholars hope that we can reap success from worthwhile toil. But reading their books, bumping into them on campus or attending the occasional lecture is one thing--enrolling in one of their classes is another. I am enticed by fame and grandeur as much as the next guy, but time and electives are precious commodities. So I switched into an English seminar...
...that haven't been done before. "The show is always a work in progress," notes Michael Warren, executive producer of Family Matters. "It's a real challenge to keep the writers and actors excited." Warren and others like him also face the frustration of toiling away for series that reap little glory. "We opened up Must-See TV on Tuesday nights," laments Wings' executive producer Mark Reisman. "At the end of this season we will have 175 episodes--that's a lot. But this show didn't create a lot of buzz in the beginning, and that just stuck. This...