Word: rewards
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...basic equipment for attracting attention will be "proposals, position papers, and what-not," Flannery said, but he added that Kariotis cannot attract attention, let alone votes, without ingenuity. The consultant pointed to Ray Shamie's 1982 Senatorial when he offered a reward to anyone who could persuade Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to debate his Republican opponent...
Harvard also has choices to make. One is whether it should reward those who distinguish themselves in carrying out the teaching burdens others are anxious only to shirk. The arguments against giving additional weight to teaching when alotting tenure are too tiresome to rehash. They make a lot of sense. It seems at the very least, however, that Lee should have been given the option of staying on at Harvard until his project was finished...
French police said Wednesday that Abdallah's brother, Robert, was a prime suspect in the cafeteria bombing, and 200,000 posters were being distributed with his picture and that of another brother, Maurice. Authorities offered a reward of one million francs--$150,000--for information leading to their arrest...
Fisher, 64, has earned his reward the hard way. He first read about the wrecked Spanish treasure galleons Nuestra Senora de Atocha and her sister ship Santa Margarita in 1960 in the Treasure Hunter's Guide, which included references to the two ships sinking off the "Keys of Matecumbe" in a 1622 hurricane. Several years later Fisher met Eugene Lyon, who was beginning research for a doctoral dissertation on the history of the Spanish conquest of Florida. Lyon was about to leave for Seville to study Spanish archives, and Fisher enlisted his aid in the search for the galleons...
...descent, which accounts for the abundance of light-skinned infants. Police claim that about 60 people worked for him, including doctors, nurses, baby- sitters, court officials, notaries and drivers. In addition, women he hired allegedly masqueraded as social workers to persuade poor women to give up their babies. Their reward: 1,000 cruzados ($72) for each infant procured. Rosi Jorje, 18, says she met a "social worker" last October when she was six months pregnant. Since the father of her baby, a sailor, had disappeared, she accepted the woman's help. In exchange for medical care, Jorje promised to give...