Bringing along teams of scientists, scholars, and artists, Napoleon's folly reaped material for a twenty-three-volume opus, "Description of Egypt" (1809-1828), characterized by Edward Said, in his book "Orientalism" (1978), as "that great collective appropriation of one culture by another".
Ordinary Palestinians, rather than kleptocrats or gunmen, would reap the material benefit of investments made by others.
But China's rigid political system makes it heavily dependent on enlightened consensus among its nonelected rulers, while India's ramshackle, pluralistic democracy has been surprisingly supple, even if its citizens haven't reaped the material benefits yet.
The problem, as described by Mancur Olson in his classic book, "The Logic of Collective Action," is that even those who share a presidential candidate's policy goals will reap no significant material advantage by donating their time or money.
Longtime veterans on Wall Street think engineering and construction companies and materials firms could reap big rewards if there is a WPA replay.
Expanding our understanding of the potential health effects of ENMs now, as new materials and applications are still on the drawing board, can help guide the field of nanotechnology so that we may reap the benefits of these materials for maximum gain and minimal risk for human society and the environment.
The company hopes that this will give member blogs an increase in traffic, while giving them an incentive to produce high quality material so that they might reap the benefits of appearing on the leaderboard.
Researchers usually reap the first fruits of any new organism or material they develop.
Although Vietnamese workers would earn the wages from such a boom, the country does not supply the raw material and so the broad economy would reap relatively little benefit, Mr. Viet of the World Bank said.
