Word: reaps
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Still, the most shameful aspect of this entire ordeal is the way in which President Bush has attempted to reap political benefits from both sides of the issue. While publicly calling for an extension to the popular ban, with a wink and a nod to the gun lobby Bush has refused to lift a finger to persuade Congress. He prefers to blame Congress for their inaction, but the true blame lies with his own insincerity...
...John Gordon is a passionate student and educator who has chosen golf as his outlet for learning and teaching,” Schernecker said in a press release. “Our program will quickly reap the rewards of John’s skills and commitment to player improvement...and I am convinced that he will be a driving force in achieving our vision of becoming the best golf program in the Northeast...
...He’d become a partner if we’d enter into a corporate agreement and he’d be able to reap any benefits from the site,” Cameron Winklevoss said in May. “It wasn’t as if we told him to build this site and then would have said good-bye, get out....He never asked for compensation, but we would have been happy to pay for his services...
...anti-Semitism all he can do is affirm the republican values of equality and fraternity. But it's like pressing a button that doesn't work anymore." Especially in the socially underprivileged banlieues, where Jewish-Muslim tension is highest, the appeal to shared citizenship is more apt to reap mockery than reverence. "Being a citizen of France used to give everyone a kind of bulletproof vest, but now it's fallen off and we see each other as Jews, Arabs, whatever," Sebban says. Sebban tried Israel in the 1990s; he lasted four years. "It was a big disappointment," he says...
...risen from the ashes of war. Japan spent $3 billion on those Games and sprinted past Germany for third place in the gold-medal count. In their patriotic frenzy, most Japanese medalists deferentially linked their victories to the country's remarkable economic rise. Still, the compulsion to reap gold for national honor sometimes proved disastrous: in 1968, a Japanese marathoner who had won bronze in the Tokyo Games committed suicide after injuries looked set to prevent him from attending the Mexico City Olympics, where he had hoped to better his third-place finish for the sake of his country. Today...