Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tour of England, and her Parliament sped up passage of its poor-relief acts. Just about then, Calvin declared that idleness was the real sin-which in the U.S. developed into the Puritan ethic that virtuous people are bound to prosper and the slothful will earn the bitter reward of poverty. Less than a century ago, Henry Ward Beecher thundered: "No man in this land suffers from poverty unless it be more than his fault-unless...
...Bread cast upon the waters is returning to the benefit of each defendant." The benefit took the form of fines, which were ap portioned to each executive's ability to pay. Stephens earns $175,000 annually, and last year his company also set aside for him a "deferred reward" of 1,209 shares of J. & L. stock - now worth $77,500 - which he will collect when he retires. He was fined $25,000; Barton was fined...
Retribution and reward are distributed among these four with the fitness of a fairy tale, and that, in effect, is what The Knack is. It's theme is the old Grimm Brother favorite of feeling's triumph over unfeeling, innocence's defeat of evil. Would a rake like Tolen be likely to harbor a secret dread of unjust arrest for rape? Well, no, but we accept his breakdown because we are more interested in seeing that he gets his comcuppance than in justifying it psychologically. And surely our wishes rather than our reallife expectations are satisfied by the simultaneous flowering...
This was vital, since both nations are in the throes of spy scares. New Delhi offered a $100 reward for every Pakistani spy captured, and an Indian news agency put out a special notice to Delhi citizens: "Anybody having information about paratroopers or any other matter pertaining to the present emergency may convey it to the authorities by phoning...
...team: A. P. (for Athanas Paul) Fontaine, 60, the chairman and chief executive officer, and George E. Stoll, 58, president and chief operating officer. Both longtime up-through-the-ranks employees, they have tightened cost controls, informed division heads that they will use Bendix' incentive bonus program to reward good producers and punish poor ones. Result: earnings rose 22% in the April-June period, are up 10% overall so far this year...