Word: rewarded
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...special form of wages, a survival of serfdom days when the lord, pleased with his servant, gave him a reward of money.-The Soviet Encyclopedia...
Similarly, scientific professors, especially members of the exclusive Academy of Sciences, are comparatively "big men" in the Soviet social scale. Doty likened them yesterday to top-level American executives in the amount of reward they reap from society, which Van Vleck commented on the large number of cars and chauffeurs they have. As Doty pointed out, "In Russia science is an area where you receive according to your ability...
Eliminating objective tests in English might be an answer. "Tests reward students who can remember, not interpret," says Dean Wilson. But to President Henry Chauncey of the Educational Testing Service (a C.E.E.B. offshoot), objective tests still seem the only solution for college applicants. Writing in the current Atlantic, he argues that objective tests are more accurate. An essay may be written badly by a good student in a state of fluster, or graded in a dozen ways by as many readers. As a one-shot gauge of college eligibility, says Chauncey, the essay is unfair and undependable...
...high-minded quote from Ben Franklin, the founder of the University, appears: "The instruction of youth is one of those employments which to the public are most useful; it ought therefore to be esteemed among the most honorable. Its successful exercise does not, however, always meet with the reward it merits, except in the satisfaction of having contributed to the forming of virtuous and able men for the service of their country...
Only next morning when store managers opened up for the day were the raids discovered. Unhappily, Scotland Yardmen, after a week of fruitless investigation, admitted they could only hope for a "snout" -someone who might be tempted into talking by an insurance company reward of $28,000. They admitted, too, to a touch of regret over the new, vice-free state of London's streets. "Those girls always helped us," confided one Yardman. "They were our eyes and ears when we weren't around. This haul couldn't have been made in the bad old days...