"Rents," in econo-speak, are the excess profits that monopolists reap in the absence of competition.
Farmers used to plant their main crop in September and reap in May or June.
Leonard D. Schaeffer and other top executives would reap in the deal.
The rewards we reap in terms of seeing what's going on in that child are quite amazing".
"Today's learning outcomes at school," says Schleicher, "are a powerful predictor for the wealth and social outcomes that countries will reap in the long run".
For ordinary Costco shoppers, tacking on delivery costs to bulk purchases could cut into savings they might reap in loading up their own cars at real stores.
"I think perseverance is very important to reap, in the end, the gains," Mario Draghi, the E.C.B. chairman, said on Thursday.
Like any government budget, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's first annual fiscal plan projects exactly how much the administration expects to reap in 2012 from the recently approved tax and fee increases, including the municipal tax on every hotel room stay.
But critics say that it amounts to gross legislative overreach, and that the $8 billion the Treasury expects to reap in taxes owed over 10 years pales next to the costs it will impose on foreign institutions.
The other benefit managers reap in the year of a major tournament is that players seeking to force their way into an international squad for the first time have an extra incentive.
