Now, they are reaping one of the best harvests in years.
Country Music Television has already reaped one benefit from its acquisition last year of Miss America.
BMW's risk management department is responsible for protecting the company, which reaps one-quarter of its $53 billion in annual sales in the United States, from the vagaries of trans-Atlantic exchange rates.
The lawyers who pressed the claims reaped one-third of the profits, and the clinic managers received another third.
The three-pronged attack by Qatar had reaped one reward.
"Siem Reap is one of the poorest provinces of Cambodia, which is a bit weird seeing the number of tourists going there," said Philippe Delanghe, the head of the UN's culture unit in Cambodia.
But everyone has to help catch butterflies".Despite the annual flood of international tourists to the Angkor temples and the estimated £380m they are predicted to bring this year, Siem Reap remains one of the poorest parts of Cambodia.
The scheme, prosecutors say, was a simple one: Croman would buy buildings with rent-controlled apartments, push the tenants out using deceitful tactics, and then reap the rewards of one of the hottest real estate markets on the planet.
When we traveled to Siem Reap in Cambodia, one of our favorite discoveries was the gay-owned Golden Banana hotel.
That HBO, under its previous leadership, passed on "Mad Men" while Weiner worked on its biggest hit, leaving the field open for the upstart AMC to reap the glory, is one of those stories that give underdogs of all breeds in this town a reason to get out of bed in the morning.
