Word: reaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aden Abdulrahman Mohammed believed the worst was over when the U.S. Marines arrived a year ago in his village just north of Baidoa. He had managed to reap a good harvest of sorghum, set up a water pump and construct a small chicken farm. Then suddenly in November, the bad old days returned. A dispute about two stolen camels between rival subclans quickly escalated into a hit-and-run war. When the shooting stopped, 15 villages, including Asha Farto, lay in smoking ruins. All the sorghum stored by the farmers had been looted or torched, and when the seasonal rains...
...been working hard all year, and hopefully this weekend we'll reap the fruits of that," said outgoing captain Tarik Campbell...
Outsiders reap important benefits too. Clinton will breathe a sigh of relief if NATO planes do not have to fly bombing runs over the fog-wrapped mountains of Bosnia. A peaceful withdrawal will let him and the rest of the West claim it is the result of their toughness in facing down the Serbs. Yeltsin will score political points at home for standing by his Slav friends and abroad for his seriousness as an international peacemaker...
With so much still to be decided, it is unclear whether Harvard cable subscribers will reap any benefits if the federally-mandated rate cut it approved...
Sculley claims that he was hoodwinked and blames Caserta for tarnishing his image. His suit charges that Caserta made "fraudulent misrepresentations" in order to reap profits on the stock-price increase inspired by his hiring. Indeed, Spectrum shares rose from 3 1/4 to 11 1/8 on the announcement, and a month later, Caserta and two of his top executives cashed in some of their options for a reported $13.2 million profit. It was not until late last month, says Sculley, that he learned of an eight-month-old investigation of the company by the Securities and Exchange Commission...