Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more for its dollars, the Government is cutting back on cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts, which guarantee a set profit regardless of how badly a company misses its delivery dates or its cost estimates. In their place, the Pentagon is increasingly signing fixed-price and incentive contracts, which reward companies with extra profit if they do well but dock them if they fall down. The Hebert act, recently passed by Congress, enables the Pentagon to delve deeply into the books of a defense supplier if he won a contract without competitive bidding, to make sure that cost estimates are accurate...
...Newman, who opposed Thompson's re-election as speaker, criticized in the newsletter his misuse of "committee assignments as a system of reward and punishments, with complete indifference to the important part these committees play in carrying on the work of the Legislature...
...have no previous contacts. Where do you look for help?" The students are somewhat baffled, not by the question, but by the approach. The answer is perfectly simple, but who will bother to give it? It is too simple to offer a challenge, too straightforward to offer a reward. In a class based on discussion, reward comes in a different form than in a class based on exams. To the Sarah Lawrence girl excitement comes in the form of an original idea finally conceived, not in the image of a multiple-choice test properly answered...
...Reward. Why should anyone want to kill such a kindly fellow? At week's end, Chicago had no idea. Mayor Richard Daley offered a $10,000 reward for the capture of Lewis' murderer. Police Superintendent Orlando Wilson, former dean of the School of Criminology at the University of California, vowed "to apprehend and bring before the bar of justice the culprit who committed this dastardly crime. I'm surprised that a killing of this sort would be effected against...
...m.p.h. Lund earned the ride in the Ford when he risked his life to pull its intended driver. Marvin Panch, from the flaming wreckage of a Ford-engined Maserati during a practice run. The badly burned Panch asked that Lund be allowed to take his place as a reward. Lund's share of the prize: $10,720, 10% of which he gave to the hospitalized Panch...