Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...villain who faces the gallows. In a moment of passionate indiscretion he has married Polly Peachum, and now the greedy Mr. Peachum turns his daughter's situation to his own advantage. With the treacherous aid of Macheath's lovely women, Peachum captures our hero and delivers him, for the reward, to Newgate Prison. The Captain's other wife, Lucy Lockit, frees him, but in another moment of indiscretion he is captured again, this time by both Mr. Lockit and Mr. Peachum. The Captain should hang, and in a tragedy he would hang, but this opera being a comedy, he lived...
...Rich Reward. Last fall's introduction of the hot-selling 1965s helped make 1964 Chrysler's most profitable year; it had earnings of $213.8 million on record sales of almost $4.3 billion. The year was also profitable for Chrysler's directors and officers, who were awarded a total of $2,110,254 in salaries and $3,780,000 in bonuses. Townsend himself set a personal record, improving his 1963 salary and bonus of $423,567 to $555,900 last year...
Beyond that, the Attorney General would be authorized to offer a $100,000 reward for information leading to the capture of an assassin; in any conflict over investigative jurisdiction, federal agencies would take over, and in any trial of a presidential assailant, no witnesses could plead self-incrimination to avoid testifying, although they would be immune from any prosecution resulting from the testimony...
...blown most of his money on a girl friend and on bribing his way in and out of Mexico. Why did he want to surrender to a Times man? He knew that Coates had a weakness for engaging crooks. Besides, Coates would be in line for a $5,000 reward, which Ruiz wanted him to put in a trust fund for his four children. "He felt I wouldn't double-cross him," recalls Coates...
Coates agreed to the deal, but the only reward he got was a big scoop in the Times. The holdup victim, Armored Transport, Inc., was "not about to give any additional money to a man who may have already beat them out of $40,000," says Coates. But a good reporter is not easily put off a juicy crime story. Last week Coates was doggedly tracking down a lead to Ruiz' brother Henry, an alleged member of the holdup gang. He has high hopes of engineering still one more sentimental surrender...