reward
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He added that new menu items, its reward program and social media engagement drove sales growth, while improvements in labor productivity and food efficiency boosted profitability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
This lesson serves as both warning and promise: What we reward when we elect is what grows.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
Crimestoppers said the reward was for information given anonymously that would lead to the conviction of the person responsible for the death of Zhang, a Chinese national.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Their activity rose shortly before mice ignored signals indicating that a reward might be available.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
The Paris-Journal raised the reward to fifty thousand francs.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Playing a game that rewards financially but could have long-term effects is a “double-edged sword,” Dotson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Parents must weigh the risks and rewards of letting their sons and daughters play contact sports in high school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
As card issuers have expanded their rewards, more people have gotten into the game of trying to collect as many points as possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
The Points Guy founder Brian Kelly spoke with MarketWatch’s Genna Contino to help her pick her first rewards credit card — and shared further tips for beginners in the points game.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
The picture that began to congeal in his mind was the essence of injustice: battle-worn veterans of the war for independence being cheated out of their just rewards by mere moneymen.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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This phenomenon stems in part from the just-world cognitive bias, the tendency to believe that the world is fundamentally fair and that good people are rewarded while bad people are punished.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
“I’ve seen people be overlooked and I’ve seen things that have been rewarded that maybe you go, well, that’s not my taste.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
For the last several years, the market has rewarded companies when they announce a new, larger model, a larger data center, or a bigger AI-infrastructure commitment.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Patient travelers are rewarded with some of the most dramatic scenery anywhere in Iceland, all frothing waterfalls and muscular peaks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
And that was enough encouragement for him—I hardly ever rewarded him with food.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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“Markets are no longer rewarding companies simply for investing heavily in AI, but increasingly demanding evidence that spending is generating sustainable profits,” Hathorn says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
“The most rewarding thing is watching the people that come through, of all ages, from little kids to senior citizens,” said Jeffrey N. Rudolph, president and CEO of the California Science Center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
When she sees a woman put a wig on and her "whole face lights up", it can be "very, very rewarding".
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
When they give raises, bosses tend to tell staff that “you’ve done a great job at work and I’m rewarding you,” said Neale Mahoney, an economics professor at Stanford University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Berlioz never flinched from reminding whoever would listen of his great troubles and adversities, nor from absorbing those torments in his music, much of which is richly rewarding to listen to.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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