Word: rewardingly
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...slip into a deflationary spiral, he opted to cut short-term interest rates to 1%, their lowest level since 1958. "His policy was to move aggressively to pre-empt the chance that this small-probability event would ever take place," says Roger Ferguson, the Fed's vice chairman. "The reward was to avoid any likelihood of deflation or economic collapse, but with a risk the Fed could end up stimulating inflation." It worked out: inflation remained in check...
...League game that so stringently regulates itself—with no athletic scholarships or playoffs, a Harvard national championship is simply not possible—schools might be better served to reward their fans’ dedication...
...winning the job of Communist Party Secretary there was Huang Jingao's big chance. He'd oversee the completion of renovations to the county town's riverfront and then could reasonably expect promotion to a bigger town in his coastal province, Fujian. The county's top position was a reward to the 52-year-old cadre for exposing corruption and braving death threats in a nearby city, and now he expected a quieter time. "I really did not want to be drawn into that kind of case again," he wrote in August...
...says he hopes the film will raise questions that many Americans have not asked about the way in which the search for Osama bin Laden was conducted. For example, why did many Afghans give little credit to President George W. Bush’s offer of a $25 million reward? Did, as many Afghans believed, the United States allow the conflict to extend in order to secure plans for an oil pipeline...
Once a Medicare critic, Prime Minister John Howard stunned the Opposition on Sept. 6 by announcing a $A1.8 billion package that allowed him to say: "We will go to this election being a better friend to Medicare." Like Labor, the Government will reward doctors who bulk bill. But it will also give more money back to patients charged upfront for their consultation. It's saying, in effect: bulk billing is important, but so is the right of doctors to charge above the standard fee when they see fit. Having abandoned plans to euthanize it, the Coalition is shaping Medicare...