Word: rewardingly
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...DEAD END With the reward he got for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out. Acts...
...however, graduation is reward enough. He pulls a laminated card out of his wallet. It's his Shelbyville High School diploma, miniaturized. "I'll always be able to look at that diploma and smile," he says. "It's the best thing I've ever done...
...birth certificates to be used as proof of U.S. citizenship. The Arellano Felix brothers, Tijuana drug kingpins known for torturing, carving up and roasting their rivals, are paying $4 million a month in bribes in Baja California alone, just as the cost of doing business. The $4 million reward for their capture is one of the highest the U.S. has ever offered--and something of a bad joke under the circumstances. There hasn't been a single nibble in four years. What good is the money if you're dead...
...small-time patent holders with dodgy claims and no actual businesses are using the legal system to extract payments from firms with established operations and products--lurking like fairy-tale trolls under bridges, popping out to collect a toll. "The trolls are turning patents into lottery tickets instead of rewards for late nights in the lab," says Rob Merges, a Berkeley law professor backing eBay. Merges says semiconductors and software may be covered by hundreds of patents, each with distinct claims, yet it may take only one case of infringement for a judge to issue an injunction, compelling many companies...
...which illegal immigrants gain legitimacy is to keep them permanently underground. "To me, it goes to the core of your view and recognition of human dignity for everybody," says Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, another of the Judiciary Committee Republicans who voted for legalization. But to do it is to reward lawbreaking, says Texas Senator John Cornyn, who voted against the bill. "It will encourage further disrespect for our laws and will undercut our efforts to shore up homeland security...