Word: rewards
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What I strive for and to a degree achieve as a craftsman wood turner has its roots in the idea expressed by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." This feeling cannot be abandoned...
Last week Roy Jenkins reaped his reward. In a hard-fought, down-to-the-wire battle in the well-heeled but wary Glasgow constituency of Hillhead, he emerged with 33.4% of the ballot, 2,038 votes ahead of the second-place Conservative candidate. Jenkins quickly acknowledged the support of the small Liberal Party and its leader, David Steel, who cemented an alliance with the S.D.P. last September. The win, exulted Jenkins, was a "triumph of the new deal of sense, moderation and hope we have offered...
...hallmark of literary modernism is the notion that readers must earn their places at the feet of the masters. Serious art requires extended initiations; Finnegans Wake is not for the fainthearted, nor will Proust reward the impatient. Isaac Bashevis Singer, 77, began writing at about the time that this avant-garde assumption was hardening into orthodoxy, and somehow he never got the message. He went on with his work under the illusion that authors were still required to prove themselves to their audiences, and not the reverse. He told stories as if daring any of his listeners...
...their place to make foreign policy. Such excuses, he explains, "abdicate all moral responsibility." Brutus also condemns the contention that some Blacks actually want the corporate help. "You can always find Uncle Toms who will parrot what needs to be said," he notes. "There is a reward for collaborating with the system," he adds, pointing to the economic advancement of Blacks who have supported outside investment in the country. Far more telling than the occasional Black support of Western involvement. Brutus suggests, is that "in South Africa, it is a crime punishable by death to call for divestment...
...manager tried to save money by keeping precise charts of discrepancies in each expected total and actual total. The owners even held a contest to reward the cashier with the highest combined accuracy and quantity. Grand prize: a salary increase of $17.23, which...