The Dahomey people of West Africa have a term for year, which translates as, "time-of-reaping-maize-and-eating-it-plus-time-of-planting-it-again-and-reaping-it-again".
The purpose of our patent system is to allow the inventor, for a fixed period of time, to reap the fruits of his labor.
The work we are doing putting structures in place on which farmers can build takes a lot of time to reap dividends.
That makes calculating interest rates hard, since savers could pay starship captains to carry them forward in time, to reap the benefits of centuries of accumulated interest.
The longer it grows, however, the less the rate of value growth, and when the rate of value growth has fallen to the rate of interest, then is the time to reap the fruits of patience.
In Malone and Hood's registration at the University of Alabama that day, we saw the doors to higher education and, through them, career advancement, reluctantly being opened for the small section of black America that was in a position, at that time, to reap the fruits of integration.
He finished the job just in time to reap a harvest of snarls and gibes from street urchins: "Yah, Stalin!
Industry analysts say the four major railroad companies -- Burlington Northern Santa Fe, CSX, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern -- are in better shape than in a long time to reap the benefits of recovery.
And the former rebel leader takes pride in the fact that his administration has brought peace to Burundi - and says now is the time to reap the fruits of this.
But the prospect has since brightened, and our affairs put on a better face Now is the time to reap the fruits of all our toils and dangers!.
Yet with construction costs and interest rates at record lows, the mayor wagered that there was no better time to reap a greater share of convention business, capture new jobs and spawn development in the city's core.
