Word: rewarded
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...result of one of these initiatives, the Teacher Bonus Program, three Harvard seniors will receive $20,000 over the next four years as a reward for teaching in Massachusetts public school districts...
Officially, of course, the industry shares my wife's concerns. But games that reward players for shooting, maiming or running over anything that moves represent a significant fraction of a total revenue stream that could top $7 billion this year--bigger even than the annual take from movie box-office receipts--and nobody is going to tighten that spigot without a fight. "Video games don't teach people to hate," said Douglas Lowenstein, president of the Interactive Digital Software Association, last week. "The entertainment-software industry has no reason to run and hide...
...quotidian indicators of failing character, from widespread cheating to gang activity. Across the country, schools both public and private are turning to programs of character education in hopes of inoculating kids with the values of civility and integrity, against the depredations of a popular culture that often seems to reward neither. As Talent House goes, so goes the nation...
Pennsylvania plans to begin paying the relatives of organ donors $300 toward funeral expenses. It would be the first jurisdiction in the country to reward organ donation. Indeed, it might even be violating a 1984 federal law that declares organs a national resource not subject to compensation. Already there are voices opposing the very idea of pricing a kidney...
...objection is that Pennsylvania's idea will disproportionately affect the poor. The rich, it is argued, will not be moved by a $300 reward; it will be the poor who will succumb to the incentive and provide organs...