Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...belated reward for his heroic World War II exploits against the Japanese, the one-eyed, one-handed New Guinea native was flown to Canberra to meet Queen Elizabeth during her recent Australian tour. Ex-Sergeant-Major Yau Wiga did not hesitate to offer political advice-in his best pidgin English. "Me tellin Missis Queen: 'Now queen, I'm one fella pickaninny. Self-guvim New Guinea im e no good. You givim self-guvim New Guinea now, New Guinea e all buggerup.' " The Queen's reply, reports Wiga, sounded something like...
...system of Pentagon contracting called Total Package Procurement, or TPP, instituted under former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. TPP was designed to end overrun claims by setting a strict ceiling on the final cost of any project. It penalized contractors who exceeded the ceilings but held out the reward of higher profits to those who reduced production costs. As Lockheed's costs overran the total package price, wrote Chairman Haughton in the company's annual report, "the gold of good intention turned into the sand of reality." Because of what he called "Government inflexibility" in enforcing the contract...
...Perhaps I have always had a soft spot for medicine as well as for the law, or perhaps I still have some elements of idealism, but there has been satisfaction and reward in the association with an institution which is fundamentally eleemosynary in character and where one's contacts with people of all kinds are apparently unlimited...
There are three or four viable techniques. There is economic power which can be mobilized to reward one's friends and punish one's enemies. There is brain power, where one can, through sheer competence and excellence, move into strategic places in the Establishment, the corporate world, the political world and from that vantage point have an influence on policy And there is political power...
...blacks should offer black studies, 57% of the teachers were unwilling to lower standards to admit more minority-group students, and 75% opposed relaxing academic requirements to put more minority members on faculties. Still, not all student complaints were rejected. Almost half the teachers believed that most U.S. colleges reward student conformity and crush the creative; 69% agreed that education would improve if courses were made more "relevant" to contemporary life. As Hayakawa might have predicted, faculty in the humanities were more sympathetic to campus radicals than teachers of science, engineering, medicine and other professions. Even so, those most committed...