Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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People wait when they have no choice or when they believe that the wait is justified by the reward-a concert ticket, say. Waiting has its social orderings, its rules and assumptions. Otherwise peaceful citizens explode when someone cuts into a line that has been waiting a long time. It is unjust; suffering is not being fairly distributed. Oddly, behavioral scientists have found that the strongest protests tend to come from the immediate victims, the people directly behind the line jumpers. People farther down the line complain less or not at all, even though they have been equally penalized...
Even so, the election marked progress for a country with one of the worst human rights records in the hemisphere (116 political killings and kidnapings a month). The results might also earn a small reward from the U.S. Congress, which is currently studying an Administration request for $10 million in "nonlethal" military aid for Guatemala, after a seven-year embargo on such assistance. Summed up the Rev. Kenneth Baker, a Jesuit priest and one of eleven official U.S. observers at the elections: "We have seen a tremendous hope in the future, but not necessarily a certainty...
...latest pronouncements. Though reporters were barred from his Sunday-afternoon harangue to followers at his Chicago headquarters, the speech was carried by a local radio station and a few journalists taped it. Some reports said Farrakhan had called Judaism a "gutter religion." Farrakhan vehemently denied this, offering a reward of "$100,000 and my life to anyone" who could prove he said "gutter." He insisted he had termed it a "duty religion," as though the distinction were significant. People listening to the tapes disagreed on which derogatory term he used. In the wake of Farrakhan's outburst, fresh anger...
...resonant portrayal of a washed-out country singer in Tender Mercies won him an Oscar, but for Robert Duvall, 53, the sweetest reward was the praise for his singing performance that came from real country-and-western stars like Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. If it worked on the silver screen, why not try for a gold record...
...from seven major debtor countries (Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Brazil) expressing "anxiety," in the words of a British official, and the hope that the debt discussion be given "the right priority." The summit finally came up with a plan that a senior U.S. official said would "reward" debtors who are making "successful efforts to improve their position." The plan includes the notion of extending and improving the terms of debt repayment where local efforts at austerity are being made...