Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, interest payments aren't handouts; they're the reward for lending money. Lenders to the Government could just as easily lend elsewhere. But most economists agree that the U.S. Government's huge demands for credit have raised interest rates generally. More and more of those interest payments go to foreigners, now that the U.S. is a net debtor to the rest of the world. But most interest payments are still to Americans. The national debt is around $10,000 a person, or $40,000 for a family of four. If your bond portfolio is bigger than that...
...vivid is their perpetual tension between lyricism and a stormy, still close past that keeps bearing down hard. "To write harshly," she says, "that's my ambition." And to relive everything, rework it and maybe, finally, to resolve it. That's her likely destiny. And the listener's reward...
...hardly. Both films had been rated X for their tone, for their fidelity to the theme of human corruption. These are modern morality plays, fascinating and determinedly unpleasant. They do not tease or flinch; they do not reward prurience. They do not glamourize violence, as the traditional Hollywood thriller does, with tricks of suspense and sexual come-on. Henry and The Cook are horror movies, yes -- essays in the horror of brutality, which they show as the insatiable craving of doomed, destructive souls. Any innocent who crosses these sociopaths, or just crosses their paths, is doomed...
...released composite sketches of the two thieves, two international auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, posted a $1 million reward for information leading to the return of the works and the museum received tips on their whereabouts...
...Michael Kinsley, then editor of the New Republic, who had notes slipped deep into dozens of copies of three much discussed works that were selling well in Washington bookstores; anyone who found the notes (which presumably included anyone who read the books) was instructed to call for a $5 reward. After five months, no one had. "These books don't exist to be read," Kinsley later wrote. "They exist to be gazed at, browsed through, talked about." The Kinsley experiment's small sampling could lead to the conclusion, probably erroneous, that no books are actually read. Some surely...