Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college, a student who went to all his lectures was an oddity. In the Law School, partly because of the perfect attendance habit of the non-Harvard graduates, a student who misses lectures is unusual. Besides running the risk of having one of the three or four professors whe reward poor attendance with an appropriately low grade, the truant student misses the most invigorating part of the school...
...reward for Morrissey's services, President Kennedy first proposed elevating him to the federal bench in 1961, but backed down when the three bar associations balked; the Boston judgeship has been conspicuously vacant ever since. Three years later, when Bobby Kennedy was about to resign as U.S. Attorney General, he asked Lyndon Johnson to name Morrissey to the federal court. Morrissey's cause has been pressed since then by Teddy Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who has had a particularly close relationship with the old family factotum. "Teddy's attitude toward Morrissey," says one Washingtonian who knows...
Henceforth, said Kosygin, the government would sharply reduce its directives to the managers. Though the total wage fund will still be set, each factory boss may slice it up as he sees fit, handing out incentive pay and bonuses to reward efficiency. No longer will a factory's performance be measured by how much it produces but by how much it is able to sell. In a wide range of consumer industries, profit will measure a manager's effectiveness - and a portion of that profit may be kept for use in improving production through new tools...
...Reward is a U.S. western from a book written by an Englishman and made by a French director with a Swedish leading man, a French-American heroine, and a number of Mexican actors who deliver at least half the dialogue in Spanish. These exotic ingredients were pressure-cooked on location in the 125° midsummer heat of California's Death Valley, and the result is indigestible...
...captain (Gilbert Roland), an embittered tough guy suffering from malaria as well as some of the corniest lines ever delivered in Death Valley, sets out in a truck with Von Sydow and three Mexican assistants to hunt down the fugitives (Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Yvette Mimieux) and claim the reward...