Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outlaw union with unwonted deference. Rockefeller's mediators proposed a pay increase of $425. The union accepted immediately, and the Governor hailed the proposal as "fair and reasonable." Lindsay rejected it out of hand. Though the difference over wages had become seemingly insignificant, Lindsay was determined not to reward the strikers with a figure above what the union leadership had been willing to accept earlier. "A little blackmail," he said, was still blackmail...
...manager, before he quit in 1921 after Henry Ford I had rejected his advice to abandon the Model T and broaden Ford's one-product line. Moving shortly to General Motors as vice president of Chevrolet, Knudsen gave Chevrolet the pickup that put it ahead of Ford. His reward was G.M.'s presidency. "Today," said Henry Ford II, "the flow of history is reversed...
...influence over U.S. economic policy. Though the post looked like a backwater, Trowbridge worked skillfully to bolster sagging department morale, pleased the White House with his loyalty in promoting Administration policies and his ability to keep his mouth shut about Commerce's many vacancies in top jobs. His reward was not only appointment last May as full-fledged Secretary-youngest in the department's history-but also a rising role in such Administration efforts as attracting business interest in slum problems, trying to end the long copper strike (which has caused an increase in imports of the metal...
...Your article reveals a serious misunderstanding of how wolves behave. Wolves have been called the "gentle predators"; there is no authenticated case of a wolf killing a human being in North America. A newspaper editor once offered a reward for a verifiable wolf atrocity story. After ten fruitless years he remarked: "Any man who says he's been eaten by a wolf is a liar...
...Nkrumah continues to broadcast to Ghana from exile in Guinea. Ghanaian police have raised the proffered reward for his capture from...