Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true that such men as Nelson Rockefeller and Charles Percy refused to support Barry Goldwater in 1964, these men disavowed a candidate, not the entire Republican Party. With so many other promising Republicans coming to the front of the political picture, the party will hardly be inclined to reward Mr. Lindsay's past and present actions aimed at maintaining his independent image...
Money for repairs, for improvement, for uplifting, has gone instead to political purposes, to salary raises for our lady School Committee member's retainers, to placate her custodians, to reward her principals, to reward the Superintendent himself for his steadfast dedication to the morbid status quo for which she and he equally stand. All evidence, all confirmation of the inferior status of the ghetto schools has geen ignored, denied, refuted. Even the blunt fact of racial segregation, known well to anyone in the schools dealing with normal vision, went for many years unadmitted and was repeatedly denied...
...build a new refinery at Teeside in Yorkshire, the government rebated 45% of the cost be cause it lay in a depressed region. On top of that, notes a Shell managing director, F. S. McFadzean, "the Selective Employment Tax and another scheme known as the Regional Employment Premium reward hiring more labor at the plant in spite of the subsidy it already has for laborsaving equipment-and somebody else pays for it in higher taxes." He adds: "Profit is still a dirty word with this government...
Some managers, obviously those with titles on the door, rate wall-to-wall carpeting, acoustic ceilings with inlaid lighting, and handsome darkwood desks and chairs. There's nothing wrong with a little rank and privilege, and, of course, a job well done entitles the doer to some sort of reward. But as one former worker for HSA said, "Sometimes ` the whole thing smacked of a bunch of little kids playing big business...
...first $50,000 was Jack's reward for winning the Westchester Golf Classic in Harrison, N.Y.; the second $50,000 was top prize at last week's 36-hole World Series of Golf in Akron, Ohio. Because the P.G.A. does not recognize the World Series as a legitimate tournament, the $50,000 winner's check did not count toward Nicklaus' official 1967 earnings, which last week stood at $156,748. But together with his other money-from exhibitions, endorsements, TV and radio shows, royalties on golf clubs and clothes, stocks (Polaroid, Zenith, IBM), real estate...