Labor Day, rewarding the fruits of labor and laborers, is tailor-made for the grape and for wine producers.
The online writing community Helium recently ended its 100 day reward-a-thon, during which contributors were rewarded with small bonuses for each article they submitted.
The Internet has been great for putting masses of data at our fingertips but it has too often sacrificed explanation, context, and narrative on the altar of speed because, as Rosen puts it, "all the day-to-day rewards go to breaking news".
But there is no known day-to-day reward system.
Perhaps the most egregious was a last-minute budget item on infertility, a pre-Election-Day reward primarily to powerful blocs of Orthodox Jewish voters in Brooklyn and Rockland County.
The Chicago Cubs gave Theo Epstein, the club's president for baseball operations, a five-year contract extension on Wednesday, rewarding him for an overhaul that has the franchise aiming for its first championship since 1908.
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday rewarded Egypt for president Mohammed Morsi's pledges of political and economic reforms by releasing $250m in American aid to support the country's "future as a democracy".
On the heels of back-to-back bowl seasons, Rutgers on Friday rewarded the football coach Greg Schiano with a four-year contract extension, which will increase his pay by nearly 50percentt.
The King George VI Chase on Wednesday rewarded the courage and determination of both a horse and his rider as Sam Waney-Cohen, amateureur jockey among full-time professionals, steered Long Run to victory for the second time in three years.
WASHINGTON -- The United States moved to restore full diplomatic relations with Myanmar on Friday, rewarding the sweeping political and economic changes that the country's new civilian government has made, including a cease-fire with ethnic rebels and, only hours before, the release of hundreds of political prisoners.
