Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Melcher adds that, since he began writing about three weeks ago, he has gotten more confident and the process has become more enjoyable. "At least I can see the beginning of the end now," he say. "Until I started writing, it was more a source of anguish than reward. It's been a constant source of guilt since last March...
...Harvard (formerly Radcliffe) lacrosse and crew programs have historically fielded strong teams--yet for years there was no NCAA title to reward their efforts...
Gould said the Darwinian concept of individuals struggling for personal reward has never been disproven, but the equally valid concepts of competition between groups and even whole species requires a broader theoretical approach...
...self- appointed crimebuster. Indeed, it is a measure of Compromising Positions' intelligence that the big speech on malefemale relations falls to Edward Herrmann, playing her husband. Angrily but without self-pity, he makes the case of the drudge-aholic whose toil supports his spouse's self-realization but whose reward is often a diagnosis that he has an intimacy problem. Like such other New York stage stalwarts as Mary Beth Hurt and Judith Ivey, he is well cast and directed by Frank Perry. They are figures who seem really to live in this landscape. Susan Isaacs' adaptation...
...workshop last year in Washington on the subject of black-on-black violence: "They believe they have nothing to lose. Even if they should lose their own lives, they feel they will not have lost very much. Besides, why should they be good, they ask. There is no reward for good behavior." Paul Hubbard, vice president of an independent urban planning agency called New Detroit Inc., is struck by the sense of detachment and despair among violent young blacks. "They have a value system much different from ours, and they don't have a reason for adopting our value system...