Word: reaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...describes how Bob Dole, pressured by House Speaker Newt Gingrich, missed a crucial opportunity to blunt one of the Democrats' favorite wedge issues, gun control, first dropping his plan to promise a repeal of the unpopular assault-weapons ban, then changing his mind again, but too late to reap the political reward. "I wanted to autopsy one moment in a very difficult time for Dole," says Duffy, TIME's national political correspondent. "You get the feeling he believes this campaign doesn't begin until Labor Day. Many Republicans hope that's not too late...
...posted meager gains of late, as rival amusements have drawn customers away. So zoos are stressing such celebrity attractions as gorillas and bears. "They are putting their star animals on pedestals," says zoo consultant Scott Schultz. The strategy is paying off. For 1995-96 the Denver Zoo expects to reap $700,000 from sales of T shirts and other items based on its popular polar bears. No word yet whether new star Cenzoo has retained an agent...
Being influential doesn't necessarily make you admirable. I wish these people would use their influence in less selfish ways. The businessmen, at least, could reap untold benefits for themselves and their companies by doing so. MICHELLE GARDNER LaGrange, Kentucky...
...Tananbaum emphasizes that in general the two organizations reap mutual benefits from the collaboration...
That's not far from the wisdom Clinton offered at Ron Brown's funeral, when he read aloud from St. Paul's letter to the Galatians. "Let us not grow weary in doing good," Christ's disciple wrote. "For in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart." Paul, of course, was referring to a heavenly reward. But another kind of harvest must have crossed Clinton's mind...