Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fifty-four minutes and three seconds later, man and dogs crossed the finish line, their faces masked in a film of frost. Attla's run-at an average of close to 20 m.p.h.-clipped six minutes off the course record. His reward: two trophies and a purse of $1,650. The next day, with Ely recovering from apres-sled festivities, Attla and his Huskies were in his ¾ton truck, rolling down State Route 169 toward Colorado and another race...
...fired various workers, terrorizing elevator operators, barbers and restaurant employees. In scrapping to retain his post, Hays promised to raise the per diem expense allowances for traveling Congressmen from $35 to $45. He has also used his chairmanship of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which dispenses campaign funds, to reward friends and browbeat enemies. He misled the 75 incoming freshmen by implying that he alone had been the source of the funds that helped elect them, even removing names of other party leaders from the letterhead of the Campaign Committee's stationery...
...July 1973, Butterfield gave Watergate an entirely new dimension by disclosing the existence of the presidential tapes to members of Senator Sam Ervin's committee and the world. By that time, Butterfield had been head of the FAA for four months, a job he got as a reward for his efficient service in the White House (he was never brushed by Watergate), and was already struggling with the organizational problems that are partially to blame for the agency's lagging response to the need to exercise closer control over flight safety...
...Agassiz Neighborhood, down-zoning has removed the immediate threats of over-development, and given the community leverage over Harvard if the University seeks a zoning variance. In the zoning controversy, the Agassiz community demonstrated a cohesiveness and a strength as a neighborhood that has its own reward. Their concern about Harvard's land arises, not only because of the threat of high density development, but because a large portion of the land is one of only two large open spaces in the neighborhood (the other is the Sachs Estate--also owned by Harvard...
...that they could some day run their own affairs, and Shaw joined. But a white landowner coveted what Shaw had, and the future was too slow in coming to help. Shaw tried-and failed-to stop sheriffs deputies from stripping a neighbor as they planned to strip him. His reward was prison and, afterward, a world whose pace was faster than his steps...