Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employee who says he was unaffected by the bonus plan. Previously, members say, managers of the 11 agencies have been awarded bonuses based on how well each division does. The new evaluations were intended, says HSA President Michael O'Brien '83, purely as a form of incentive and reward; bonuses were offered "to keep the managers on their toes...
...nothing over high school grades alone." Grouse and Jencks, in a previous study, concluded that the SAT, as a so-called aptitude test, encourages students to believe they can get by on innate intelligence, without hitting the books, while achievement tests, which assess mastery of the secondary-school curriculum, reward diligent study of standard academic courses. They note, "We think emphasizing tests like the SAT in college admissions undermines efforts to improve secondary education...
...record of dubious accomplishments includes more than the systematic violation of fundamental human rights. He has overseen the destruction of democracy in his country, coordinated the repression of his people at the hands of the military and brought the Philippines' economy to the brink of collapse. And what reward does Marcos receive for all his achievements? When he arrived in the U.S. a week ago, President Reagan welcomed him warmly and hailed him as "a voice of reason and moderation...
Librettist Colby's campy, hit-or-miss humor works best in a scene describing the heroine's mother, a "chronic shiverer" who goes to her reward wearing enough garments to stock a branch of Marks & Spencer. Other beguiling wackinesses: a song about a man who makes eating vegetables seem a sexual experience, the vocal travails of a hiccuping, stuttering woman who has "bubbles in her bonnet," and the soprano heroine's sudden loss of her "high note," which she regains at the price of addiction-to helium sucked from balloons. In less good taste is a character...
Life was strict, punishment swift and reward restrained at home as at military school, though father and son were close. Ed occasionally used a wire coathanger "to get my attention," Ted recalls. He was assigned onerous chores to earn his pocket money, and by his late teens his father charged him rent during summer vacations. For Ted's graduation from his second military academy, the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn., Ed Turner offered an enticing but booby-trapped present: a share of the cost of a Lightning-class sailboat. The rest was to come from Ted's savings...