Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yankees are overpaid, but so are the Red Sox and the members of the LPGA and all of the other people who spend their adulthood hitting, chasing and throwing things for money. The Yankees are no more evil than any other organization because they reward their gladiators on a particularly ridiculous scale. There is little honor in the business of baseball; the honor is on the field, where the Yankees strut with pride and the Red Sox drown in tragedy...
When will a President learn that disciplining America is like disciplining a child? It's more effective to reward the good than to punish the bad. Why not reward the child who eats his vegetables? Americans need incentives to save and invest [March 24], like raising interest ceilings for small savers and reducing or eliminating taxes on interest and dividends...
...system is the unavoidable price that must be paid for genius, hard work or plain luck. The equality of results demanded by many leftist reformers would stultify society; complete equality can only be enforced by dictatorship. Income-leveling experiments in Britain and Scandinavia have proved that an economy without reward for success produces social entropy. There is little incentive for anyone to do more than the minimum necessary to maintain his own standard of living. Argued Winston Churchill: "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries...
...behalf of the above groups and others that are emerging. Naturally many Evangelicals of a more liberal political bent are nervous about the new muscular Christianity. Candidate Anderson, who has always urged the devout to get involved in politics, says, "I never believed they would interpose specific doctrine to reward or punish candidates. That totally violates the role the church should play." Anderson has probably been hurt somewhat by religious right-to-lifers...
...reward is a scholarship to an adult-education institution where the Communists offer ideological instruction to workers who have the potential to become party functionaries. She is such a sweet, shy thing, and the school is so cold and so crowded with dominating personalities, that one thinks for a time that the film will be about how a waif's spirit was crushed. This plot line seems to be especially possible when she develops an infatuation for her principal instructor, who is married...