Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bringing out the compact, best-selling Falcon (and a lesser one in putting together the ill-fated Edsel). He also dismayed car connoisseurs by changing the sporty Thunderbird from a two-seater to a four-seater-a decision, however, that more than tripled "T-bird" sales. As a reward for such judgments, McNamara has become a millionaire, and last year earned $410,000 (about $150,000 after taxes). Last week McNamara announced that in addition to taking a mammoth salary cut to serve as Defense Secretary (statutory pay: $25,000, plus use of a chauffeured Cadillac), he would sell...
Charlie Loftus down in New Haven has called for the deification of Yale's starting eleven, but placing seven of the immortals on the first two all-Ivy teams seems enough reward for what we all know was Yale's first unbeaten season since 1923. If Loftus wants to erect solid gold statues of all eleven starters in the Gothie wastes of Payne-Whitney Gymnasium, that is his business...
Yovicsin said in the post-game press conference--as the strains of "Bulldog, Bulldog, Bow, Wow, Wow" came down from the visiting team's showers--said that he hoped Ravenel's triumphant touchdown was some sort of reward for his Harvard career. "Not nearly as great as winning, of course," the poised and calm Yovicsin said of "the greatest player I have ever coached...
...addition, teaching and working abroad would educate hundreds, perhads thousands of young Americans each year. They would see at first hand the needs and aspirations of the countries where they worked and lived. As the resolution of the Princeton conference says, the "Peace Corps" would bring "the reward of enriching American culture." The young men who returned would speak with authority and conviction; their letters home would have greater effect than any government report or novel on foreign aid programs...
Gaither encourages his boys to turn pro, not so much for the money as for another sort of reward: "There is no place in the life of my people for mediocre performance. This has to be the dominating factor in our life. For a Negro boy, there is not just a game of football. He can't afford to let his people down...