Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...became a millionaire building subways, bridges, tunnels and airports in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. One of the first business executives in the Northeast to come out strongly for Ronald Reagan during the 1980 Republican primaries, he eventually raised $600,000 for the campaign. Donovan's reward was a Cabinet post. From his earliest days in office, however, he was plagued by accusations, mostly made by gangsters, that he and his company had close ties to organized crime...
...reward was a goal over the head of Schoen...
...complete misnomer. He is the least analytical and the least astute, and he has the least time for the substantive work of the court." Burger has irked some of his colleagues, who suspect that he has used his power to assign the written opinions of the court to reward his friends and punish his enemies...
...that mixes state ownership with individual enterprise. Hungarian agriculture, for example, has prospered by encouraging the cultivation of private plots on state-organized cooperative farms. The government is giving factory managers the power to make many of their own decisions about production quotas and reinvestment of capital and to reward efficient employees with bonuses. The latest reforms have given workers a say in choosing their bosses. Soon to come, say government economists, will be a cut in state subsidies that keep prices of some goods artificially low. "We do not deny that we are pragmatists, but our final goal...
...reward to Mengistu for bringing Ethiopia into the Communist fold, Moscow has signed a new economic agreement with Ethiopia. Apparently, though, it will not pay the bill for all of the attendant celebrations: a reported $250 million...