Word: rewards
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...Georgetown University Law Center attributes the court's decision to the fear that as blacks take power in cities such as Richmond, laws will be passed to benefit blacks over whites. Observes Abernathy: "The court is saying that it won't stand for black leaders using power to reward their friends at the expense of others...
...hospices and homeless shelters in their local communities. The volunteers would also have the option of entering the armed forces at wage rates significantly below those of regular soldiers. The national-service proposal -- originally developed by sociologist Charles Moskos and the Democratic Leadership Council -- is poised between threat and reward. "It's just this side of compulsion," says Moskos, who teaches at Northwestern University, "but we don't cross the line...
...daughter Barbara. Later, while trying to avoid work in the army, he learns another of life's essential lessons: "Not-really-trying is just as much effort as trying-really-hard. The only difference between the two modes of activity is that not-really-trying receives no reward...
Rare is the illustrated book in which pictures and words equally reward attention. The Altarpiece in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge; 240 pages; $75) admirably succeeds on both counts. For openers, it offers for the first time in English an extended essay by Jacob Burckhardt, the 19th century cultural historian best known for his The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860). Burckhardt's study of Italian altarpieces, originally published in German a year after his death in 1897, remains magisterially informative. And the accompanying reproductions, including work by Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Titian and Michelangelo, do more than supplement Burckhardt's text...
Specifically, Bush has promised to increase funding for a variety of programs that serve students from preschool through college, to reward schools that raise test scores and to award cash bonuses to outstanding teachers. Now that the White House is his, TIME will take the President-elect at his word. During the next four years, the magazine will occasionally grade Bush on his progress in addressing one of the nation's most urgent problems...