Word: rewardable
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Pigeons carry the infectious agents of a dozen diseases. They may reward the owner of the hand that feeds them with a dose of ornithosis (better known as psittacosis or parrot fever). In New York and probably in most U.S. cities, pigeons are also the principal carriers of the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans, or CN. The fungus does not seem to make the birds sick, perhaps because their blood heat is too high, but they drop it all over the place in their excreta...
...dormitories with four bunks to a room, families in one-room apartments in blocks of brick flats. During lunch breaks at the factory, Belhomme recalls, workers "talked mostly about food, how to get food, and prices." When an office worker referred to the Communist cadres as "golden boys," his reward was a trip to a "labor-education camp," and then to jail. On his return, he was reemployed, but as a common laborer...
While radios blared the descriptions of the fugitives, thousands of South African police manned roadblocks, searched white homes and black townships all over the country. Their elusive quarry, honored by the biggest reward ($5,600) ever posted in South Africa: four prisoners who had staged a 1 a.m. walk-away from Johannesburg's central police headquarters. The leader of the fugitives was Arthur Goldreich, at 33 one of the country's most successful artists, and as of last week one of its more successful escape artists as well...
...Best Customer of the Year award: former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, 50, who visited Egypt in June. "He did not bargain," explained Shopkeeper Ali Farag. "He seemed concerned with the appearance of things, he was not interested in the materials of which they were made." Nixon's reward: an inscribed silver tray. Back home in Manhattan, the puzzled winner recalled only that he did "lots of handshaking" at the bazaar. "Mrs. Nixon and the girls did most of the buying...
Working jointly, sheriffs of the six counties and the FBI are trying to run down the saboteurs, but so far have made only a handful of arrests. General Telephone has offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the vandals; the union has countered with a $10,000 reward-if they proved to be management hired. Spurred by growing public pressure for a settlement, company and union were crawling only slowly toward the kind of communication necessary to end the dispute...