Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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College newspaper columns of the time were filled with complaints that grading resulted in such academic horrors as "an authoritarian relationship between teacher and student" and "an undesirable reward structure" that "corrupts the educational process...
Stethan Churover, professor of psychology and brain science at MIT, said, "Behavior modification is similar to the systems of reward and punishment which prisons have used for years. It is simply more organized, with a theoretical background and more powerful techniques. They have changed the words but kept the maximum security. Butner [a federal prison which used behavioral modification theory] does not have guards but counselors, not cells but modules...
Yule Letter. Beame ran into trouble with one of his first nominees. As a reward for long service to the city's Democratic regulars, he named Seymour Terry, 55, his official campaign manager and a Queens insurance man, to a $39,500-a-year post as a special assistant to the mayor. Terry celebrated by sending 600 clients a yuletide letter that could have been phrased more discreetly, to say the least. "My new circumstances," went the message, "will no doubt enable you to get even greater benefits from your association with Terry Brokerage Co. than you have heretofore...
...passed the National Coal Health and Safety Act to force improvements in mine conditions. These were vividly recalled by Arnold Miller, president of the United Mine Workers, in a recent speech. Old miners, said Miller, "labored their lives away in the bowels of the earth and reaped as their reward a back bent like a stunted tree and lungs that did not work because they were full of coal dust." The law has started to change the situation, but it also has sharply increased operating costs and caused some 500 marginal mines to close. Productivity per worker plunged from...
...only 20 replies received so far, the results are inconclusive. Not, however, as far as Berrigan is concerned. Decrying what he called "a degrading consensus game," Berrigan refused the prize. His refusal, he said, "brings me somewhat nearer to the spirit of Gandhi; it is not a time for reward, but a time for labor...