Word: reaps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While the quoted prices appear to move in concert, a few sometimes lag behind, creating brief price differentials that clients spot and pounce on. Customers who correctly predict the direction of a stock can reap $250 (less commissions) for each quarter-point gain on a 1,000-share bet. But "riding a wave" is not so easy: a stock can blip upward, enticing a small trader to buy it, and then come tumbling down. "Oh my God!" cries a fortysomething beautician as she loses $250 in a split-second transaction involving Genzyme, a biotechnology firm. "This has been the longest...
When it comes to exploiting nature, humans seem to be like alcoholics: either on the wagon or on a binge. The fashionable and optimistic belief that humans can reap nature's bounty in a controlled fashion -- an ideal known as "sustainable use" that has long been the prevailing philosophy of conservationists as well as many businessmen -- is turning out to be a chimera...
...should we all thank four years of great weather and Dining Services food? Or can anyone reap the benefits of exercise...
...They work awfully hard out there, and their attitude all year long has been so good; eventually, they're going to reap the benefits...
Secretary of Commerce Barbara Franklin called the figures "a good present for us to leave to the new Administration." And there really were indications that the economic upturn George Bush had so often promised had finally begun -- just in time for Bill Clinton to reap the political benefit. Gross domestic product leaped up at an annual rate of 3.9% in the third quarter, returning total output of goods and services to the pre-recession pace of mid-1990. Strong increases were registered by consumer spending, business investment, orders for durable goods, sales of existing houses and consumer confidence, while...