Word: replenishes
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...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 link between Christian and socialist ideas. A papal critique of unbridled capitalism is anticipated by the socialist government. Officials hope the reception they accord the Pope will accelerate the rapprochement between religious and secular segments of society...
...large bin of holiday pillows empties out almost as quickly as the staff can replenish it. Across the floor the supply of a dozen treadmills is getting dangerously low. And forget about buying an electric wreath or 3-D star for Christmas. Gone...
...goal is to get workers the money that's owed them as quickly as possible." Reich's pragmatic approach, said TIME's Bernard Baumohl, is most likely due to the prohibitive legal costs of pursuing errant employers. "Companies have now been given due warning and a grace period to replenish the 401(k)," said Baumohl. "If they don't, they are aware of the consequences -- that the government will go after them much more aggressively and they will get a reputation among American workers for being irresponsible with retirement savings." The 401(k) is vulnerable to fraud because rules regulating...
...there was a lot to do before that could happen. Once the handshakes and photo opportunities were done, the 10 space travelers had to transfer food and water, which Atlantis had brought to replenish Mir's dwindling supplies. The astronauts and cosmonauts also had a full schedule of experiments that would occupy them for the next five days. Many of them involve medical tests on Thagard and the Mir crew to analyze the effects of long-term space flight on their bodies...
...hefty 2.3 billion bushels of wheat are counted, it is no wonder that usually taciturn agronomists and economists turn lyrical over the continuing capacity of this nation to astound itself with the production of staples. "It is just truly remarkable that farmers could bounce back from the floods and replenish the coffers like this," says Keith Collins, the USDA's chief economist. The exuberant poet-farmer Michael Carey of Farragut, Iowa, says it this...