Word: reaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Viators can be victims too. There are brokers who reap hefty, 18% commissions without getting the sellers--often ill, vulnerable people--the best deal available. One viator who went through Alpha Capital Group, a viatical provider that is fighting a cease-and-desist order from Washington State, ultimately received $5,400, or 6% of the policy's $90,000 face value...
Jasanoff says that students can reap several benefits from participating in a professor's outside project...
...reap the greatest benefits, according to Orfield, is to make sure outside work is complementary--and secondary--to faculty responsibilities...
Students had some suggestions ready. Raising questions about why Harvard chooses to spend its money on buildings and structural improvements, they said undergraduates should reap more benefits from Harvard's hefty endowment...
...merely pairing up with someone who already had a dependent child were sufficient to fully engage the evolved psychology of parental feeling," they write. "And it is not sufficient. Stepparents do not, on average, feel the same child-specific love and commitment as genetic parents, and therefore do not reap the same emotional rewards from unreciprocated 'parental' investment." Violence, they say, is just one, albeit dramatic, consequence...