Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...form, he set out to manipulate his external circumstances so as to maximize the productivity of his pen hand. He established a daily regiment: two hours of work in a room maintained at optimal temperature and humidity, at precisely the same time each morning, immediately followed by lunch, his reward. He carried a pen and pad with him at all times, and kept a tape recorder at bedside, as crutches for his fallible human memory, which might miss stray bits of "verbal behavior" that popped out at inconvenient times. He also probably made use of his "spare mind"--catalogued files...
...laud his achievements in the development of teaching machines and in animal training, and grudgingly admit the success of behavior modification with autistic children and the mentally ill. But the concept of a genetically-and environmentally-programmed existence, of an a-responsible, un-free person rebounding from punishment to reward, has stuck in the craw of humanists from George Bernard Shaw to William F. Buckley, Jr. Metaphysics aside, they have argued, the sheer complexity of our experiences would preclude a valid forecast of future action...
...reward for officiating is neither lucre nor recognition but "a job well done," Diehl says. "Self-satisfaction is the only satisfaction you're really going to get. We're out there because we want to be out there, not because we have to be." Diehl says "if any official is looking for recognition he should get the hell out. The best compliment is not to be recognized the next...
...many of my colleagues in the arts who do not know when to quit. It is really a sad thing to witness, and I am determined that this will not be my fate." That is not to say that Maurice Abravanel would like to be voted out. "Our reward for this hard traveling is the reaction of a small-town audience when it hears a symphony orchestra for the first time," he says. "If I could choose how and where to die, I would like it to happen while conducting my orchestra in a place like Dillon, Montana...
...sees as the stupidities of American public policy. Ideologically, his book will probably be read by some as a callous, you-can't-make-an-omelette-without-breaking-eggs dia tribe against social planners, academics in public life and environmentalists. Among his dicta: "Adjustments that take the reward structure too far out of line with contributions produce economic decay . . . An entirely disproportionate share of medical attention goes to the chronic, hopeless ills of the aged at the expense of children and young adults, whose needs would be a much wiser investment of the resources . . . In the real world, limited...