Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never offers insights into the novelist's torments. Brittain rattles off Lowry's formative emotional traumas?his strained relationship with his parents, his early brushes with homosexuality, his bizarre first marriage?without ever relating them to the rest of his biography. Certainly Lowry devotees will find these psychological clues reward enough, but others may wonder why they should spend 100 minutes watching a film that never uses its esoteric subject to make a larger point. Volcano is a movie to see ?but only after reading the book...
...size and complexity. Chemical confirmation of his theory did not come as a surprise to Prigogine, who is also director of the Center for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics at the University of Texas, Austin. Nor did last week's prize. "The professor more or less expected this reward," said a colleague. "It was in the normal course of things...
...step system is grounded in behavior modification theory, where a tantalizing reward is supposed to induce the desired behavior. But even if the philosophy is sound, it has filtered down through so many layers of bureaucracy that it loses any validity it might have had in the beginning. The thought of the minimum security jail at Walpole, with its few educational programs, and a few more visiting privileges, is supposed to tempt the men in the maximum end. But these men, as they will tell you themselves, have spent their lives fighting the authorities; it will take more than...
Among the rewards of being a physician Ebert noted the "substantial" pay, the intellectual satisfaction of working in biological science, and the enormous "spiritual and emotional reward" of helping people...
After all of these positions and activities, a deanship was a logical next step. In 1975, he accepted the University of Chicago's offer. As Tosteson notes, "The reward for a job well done is another job." But there was still one more job in the offing. When last fall Tosteson accepted President Bok's offer of appointment to his alma mater, Harvard Medical School, the president of the University of Chicago quickly relieved Tosteson of his posts at Chicago, citing "the potential conflicts of interest in Dr. Tosteson's position as dean-designate of the Harvard Medical School...