Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deflate "golden parachutes," which give special payments to executives if they leave a company after a takeover. If the sale of Esmark goes through, for example, Chairman Donald Kelly, 62, would collect three years' salary and sell his 245,000 shares of stock for $60 a share. Total reward: $17.4 million...
Reagan lobbied strongly for full funding of the MX, arguing that cancellation of the program would reward the Soviets for refusing to resume START talks, which have been inactive since last December. Referring to the MX by the nickname he prefers, the President said, "Without Peacekeeper, the incentive for the Soviets to return to the negotiating table is greatly reduced." But by the weekend before the vote, Speaker Tip O'Neill, an MX opponent, boasted that he had a solid majority to scuttle the missile. Republican Leader Robert Michel then made a publicized pilgrimage to the White House...
Meikle said he "took issue" with Bok's claim that faculty are unwilling to upgrade their teaching methods primarily because there is very little reward for teaching...
OBVIOUSLY, THE volunteers' reward is largely intangible. Even the program option of spending an extra month after the conclusion of work as tourists--and still enjoying the same low-cost ticket home--doesn't make up for lost work time in the U.S., or even for the original plane ticket itself. Room, board, and some travel costs within Israel are paid by the Israel Defense Forces, but General Davidi frankly admits. "There's no obligation other than the moral one, once you've started. At any time a volunteer can simply say. "That's it,' and leave...
...when a first-rate photographer is killed, as Newsweek's John Hoagland was in El Salvador in March, that's when you realize the great degree of risk we all court. Hoagland was no cowboy. Almost none of us is. The Robert Capa medal doesn't reward cowboys. It is given for practicing good journalism where risk is intrinsic...