Word: reaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Winners of the annual scramble among universities to snag big-name commencement speakers often reap the benefits in increased press attention...
Lewis and Knowles have, in effect, presented the College as a place for alumnae gifts, a place where undergraduate women do reap the benefits of the FAS coffers...
...Cubans are pretty smart about how they're playing this," says a senior State Department official in Washington. "They are unlikely to have gone ahead with the visit unless they thought they could control it." Castro is betting that he will reap significant rewards. His aides may bristle at the word, but legitimacy is something Fidel has always sought. Just appearing on the same stage with the Vicar of Christ lends a powerful measure of respectability to the Cuban Comandante. At the same time, the regime will seek to replenish the threadbare rhetoric of the revolution by emphasizing the moral...
Despite widespread fears about the immorality of cloning humans, scientists say cloning can reap significant scientific and medical benefits...
...considers the "oil-for-food" swap it approved last December to be in this category; the plan allowed Iraq to sell $4 billion worth of oil, using the money for food and medicine.) The motives of the French and the Russians are suspect, however, because both countries stand to reap financial windfalls from a lifting of sanctions. Iraq owes Russia an estimated $10 billion in foreign-aid loans--money that can't be paid back so long as Iraqi funds are frozen--and Russian companies have some $20 billion in contracts with Iraq ready to kick in if sanctions...