Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general manager. In 1941 he moved to the Rexall Drug Co. and turned it into Dart Industries, a conglomerate he merged with Kraft Foods in 1980. Dart recognized Reagan's political potential and worked to advance his career, but refused to accept any high-level post as a reward. Said Dart: "Ron has enough experience with Justin Dart to know that I don't want a damn thing from...
Testified Barnes: "I have no way to reach to get to 'em, and I want to get back at 'em. That's my primary reason." If revenge is indeed his reward, then his long life behind bars may be a bit sweeter: he has made it certain that his blood brothers will share his prison life...
...corporations that have market values of $1 billion or more. But a trickle of retirement money is flowing into shares of young, fast-growing companies. A group of small pension-management firms, known in the trade as boutiques, specializes in the high-risk, high-reward strategy of investing in growth stocks...
...ghosts are concerned, reason enough for the perdurability of tales about phantoms, poltergeists and demons. A case in point: Esteban and the Ghost, adapted by Sibyl Hancock (Dial; $10.95). The hero, a wide-eyed tinker, plies his trade in the hills of Spain until he learns of a reward for anyone who can exorcise the ghost from a forbidding castle. The sprite can overwhelm anything except innocence, and Esteban not only survives but prevails. Together, he and the ghost recover some stolen treasure, a feat that lands one in paradise and the other on the Iberian version of Easy Street...
...When the attempt failed, so did the dictatorship. Somewhat the same fate of internal overthrow is feared by the regimes of Syria and Jordan, and to maintain their positions they are expending much of their time and energy to suppress these fundamentalist sects. Israel can now reap the indirect reward, if it so desires...