Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disk was the most sought-after part because it served as the hub for the engine's turbine blades. Metallurgists who inspected the disk last week found a crack that appeared to have been present before the explosion and may have triggered it. From its total reward fund of $271,000, GE paid farmer Sorenson, 58, a bounty of $120,000 for her discovery...
...increasingly radical in its aims. In April the group called for the secession of the North Solomons province, of which Bougainville forms the major part. Meanwhile, the economy of P.N.G., which draws 20% of its domestic revenues from the mine, is hemorrhaging. The government is offering a $200,000 reward for Ona and seven others, dead or alive...
...Hatcher, were charismatic veterans of the civil rights movement who became national spokesmen for the plight of the inner cities. For their constituencies, long denied access to political power, the mere election of one of their own to offices from which they had long been excluded was a reward in itself. "Early on, black voters' expectations were not necessarily tied to material gains," says William G. Boone, a political scientist at Atlanta's Morehouse College. "It was more of a psychological gain...
...best deal we've ever made. For the same amount of money, I could buy something boring that I've done umpteen times over that has the potential to earn, pretax, perhaps $2 million. The Sun has the potential to earn 15 times that. So from a risk-reward viewpoint -- which isn't why I did it -- it makes sense. From a creative viewpoint, it has a lot to do with how our newspapers will operate...
...world, no less than the Brazilians, need the Amazon as a functioning system, and in the end, this is more important than the issue of who owns the forest. The Amazon may run through South America, but the responsibility for saving the rain forests, as well as the reward for succeeding, belongs to everyone...