Word: rewardingly
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...Syria is back in style. The invitation to Paris is ostensibly a reward for the the start of indirect peace talks between Syria and Israel (through Turkish mediation.) But it's also recognition that attempts to isolate Syria have failed, and that the West needs Syrian help for resolving some of the biggest problems in the Middle East. For its part, Syria wants to come even further out of the cold. While in Paris, President Assad told French television that in the event of direct talks under American sponsorship, there could be peace between Syria and Israel within two years...
...they venture across this alien landscape, players must seek through technique and concentration a peculiarly thrilling reward: the perfect control of a ball's trajectory over hundreds of yards, through contact that lasts less than a split second. When it all goes right, as it did for Justin Rose on the final hole at Birkdale a decade ago, no sport offers a greater sensation of mastery. It is this elusive joy that explains the golfer's endless pursuit of perfection. As Leadbetter says, "That's what it's all about in golf: the quest...
...saved, aid was also a distortion - free food diminished the need to farm, free money diminished the need for efficiency, and both diminished the need for self-reliance or entrepreneurs. Meanwhile, a revolutionary spirit simultaneously led directly to corruption and autocracy. Many rebel movements took as the righteous reward of struggle their country, its new foreign funding - and an everlasting hold on both. And then there is the African brotherhood of longevity. Gabonese President Omar Bongo, who has ruled for a world-beating 41 years, told reporters at the A.U. summit: "He [Mugabe] was elected, he took an oath...
...Many think Africa can. The emerging generation of leaders wants Mugabe and his fellow dinosaurs to go. Last year Sudanese telecoms billionaire Mo Ibrahim inaugurated a $5 million prize to reward those who govern well, and peacefully give up office. An increasing number of Africans believe they can ask for better behavior from their leaders. Observer missions from the A.U., the Southern African Development Community and the Pan-African Parliament declared Zimbabwe's poll not credible. Some went further. Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma said Africa must "in no uncertain terms, condemn what has happened"; and former Archbishop Desmond...
...MILLION Reward offered by the State Department for the capture or killing of bin Laden...