Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brochure describing Miramar Naval Air Station, there is a picture of one of the many military home-comings Miramar hosts every month. Five smiling and lei-draped young men--"MIG-killers returning from Vietnam," the brochure says--stride away from their parked fighter planes and towards the kind of reward that Miramar, with its bowling alleys and movie theaters, offers those who have earned a hero's welcome...
...alcoholic steelworker, appropriately named Tank (Julian Mayfield), is rejected by his white employers and his black power-hungry companions. When one of the rebels murders a man during a holdup, Tank, blinded by resentment and fumes of booze, turns him in for $1,000 in reward money. Assailed by guilt, he abruptly endows a sidewalk preacher and a bunch of barflies with $20 bills. Militants spot the trail of green and run Tank to earth. Almost gratefully he accepts their revenge: a bullet in the stomach...
Spengler likes to run alone, and he likes to run often. He seems to have a partially masochistic motive for the gruelling daily routine to which he puts himself. He explains this by saying, "the more pain you subject yourself to in order to gain a reward, the more meaningful the reward...
...forced landing on Malta (when its flight plan said it was going to New York). A third crashed in the jungle killing all aboard, and a fourth was blown up in Bisau, reportedly by a South African who is now in his native country enjoying a $100,000 reward from Nigeria...
Despite U.S. objections that this would put a floor under the free-market price and thus reward speculators against the dollar, the idea has gradually won strong backing among European bankers. Many worry that the value of their own hefty gold stocks would be lowered if the free-market price should slip below the official price. The larger South Africa's gold pile grows, the more nervous the bankers get, fearful that the great golden overhang might somehow cause the free-market price to collapse. Some see South African sales to the IMF as a clever...