Word: rewarding
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High Price. One big incentive behind the hunt for Big Daddy is the price on his head. Miami's Tycoon/Fin-Nor Corp. will pay $5,000 to the first angler who lands a 1,000-lb. blue marlin on its fishing tackle; there is another $1-per-lb. reward if the fish is caught off the Virgin Islands, and $10,000 if it is boated off Puerto Rico...
Tennessee Governor Buford Ellington announced a $5000 state reward. Knoxville's mayor Leonard Rogers said his administration "is very anxious" to solve the case...
...problem is that the delegation system was not constructed to reflect a state's population in proportional terms. Rather, it was designed to reward those who, through special influence or strength of numbers, have come out on top of the political heap...
...Heinrich (Martin Ružek). Heinrich hires an English governess called Regina (Jana Štěpaňková) to give the ape-baron enough training to convince a commission that he is competent to take over his rightful inheritance. On the sly, he offers her a handsome reward to fail; Regina, though, does her perfidious best to get Wolfgang's money while she gets...
...discounts" of an unspecified amount on large stock transactions. They also recommended outlawing the controversial practice of "give ups"-by which a large stock trader (usually a mutual fund) directs the broker executing the order to split his commission with another brokerage firm. Often such fee splitting is a reward for unconnected services such as selling mutual-fund shares; the Government maintains that the custom undermines the whole case for fixed commissions. "Confused." As lead-off witness last week, Vice President Robert Bishop of the New York Exchange declined to defend give ups. "There's not much point...