Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main biological reward of working out is more immediate: the mystical "runner's high" associated with strenuous exertion. Some experts speculate that during prolonged, intense exercise, the right, or creative, hemisphere of the brain takes over from the normally dominant left, or analytical, side, allowing associations to flow freely...
There is great reward in using the power that you have to help good people who have less. I have enormous respect for Derek Bok and I honestly believe that his instincts lie in that direction...
...honest. In his terms, that means peddling tie clips, shoelaces, sex books, even Nazi newspapers, but not pimping or joining a gang of thieves led by the brusque dandy Pums (Ivan Desny) and including his friend Meek (Franz Buchrieser) and the reptilian sadist Reinhold (Gottfried John). Franz's reward for innocently going with the gang on a heist one night is to be pushed by Reinhold from the van and have his right arm crushed under the wheel of an approaching car. Reinhold pushes other things on Franz: his cast-off women. Soon the one-armed...
...been a saver since the fourth grade, I read with interest your article on the growing demand for a consumption tax [July 18]. I am sick and tired of a society that penalizes those like me who are thrifty. Worse, our nation's lawmakers reward my fellow citizens who indulge in big spending frivolities by not slapping them with a consumption tax. Our politicians should face up to the need for restructuring our tax system. It is no wonder that the middle class finds foreign bank accounts more and more appealing...
...worked on him for a decade and who curated this fascinating show, should bear the name Wanda Corn. Moreover, the time is ripe. Once again, Americans are bemused by the deflation of their dreams. As it was in the '30s, the ethos that linked virtue to reward through honest toil is in deep trouble. Granted, the nostalgia for Wood's Midwest is now laced with self-evident ironies; one might say that it is a nostalgia not so much for a rural way of life as for a means of seeing a rural ethos without irony. The revival...