Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...payments to miners suffering from black-lung disease. The Government might save $4 billion to $5 billion next fiscal year, at the price of slicing into some programs that Reagan had earlier defined as part of an untouchable "social safety net." True enough, current formulas are widely believed to reward recipients of some of these benefits, especially Social Security, more than the rise in their real living costs would warrant. Nonetheless, the decision might embarrass the President, who had pledged only last Tuesday that "the budget will not be balanced at the expense of those dependent on Social Security...
...weeks since Krukow's lead-off gaffe, the rest of baseball has gone blundering in his footsteps, devising a "second season" of artificial pennant races that promised to reward bad teams and penalize good ones, and prompted some players and managers to threaten openly that they would throw games if they would benefit by doing so under the screwy new rules. Under a lame-brain plan devised by league officials, the four teams leading their divisions when the strike started June 12 (the New York Yankees, Oakland A's, Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers) were declared "first...
...five years and vehicles in three years. This "10-5-3" formula, strongly favored by corporations and their lobbyists, should theoretically encourage businesses to invest in new factories and replace obsolescent equipment. Some critics, however, worry lest companies use some of their tax savings for other purposes-to reward stockholders with higher dividends, say, or buy up other businesses in the current urge to merge. But Ted Eck, chief economist for Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), does not agree that business gets a windfall from the new allowances. Says he: "There are lots of goodies in there for small business...
...clumsy, good-natured dog named Buck goes on a tour of Hollywood homes, including Lassie's? Who could be offended if An American Tragedy spun off a happy shadow called An American Comedy, in which Clyde Griffiths saves his girlfriend Roberta from drowning and receives a $7.50 reward from the grateful foreman of the factory in which Roberta is considered irreplaceable? Another natural would be Life of a Salesman, in which Willy Loman, 63, invited to take early retirement by his company, finds fulfillment in the neighborhood shuffleboard league...
...there have been losses sporting as well as financial over the last few years. At one time, players (Arthur Ashe, for example) would trek to Chesnut Hill each year simply to reward the club that did so much to introduce real money into the game. But now many players stay away, criticizing the operation of the tournament and complaining that they are not taken care of in the grand style to which they are accustomed. Longwood, these tanned young athletes say, seems more like a "project of the month" put on by clubwomen than a serious sporting event...