They battle and survive a Mississippi flood for the reward of returning to state prison as the tall man did in the story "Old Man."

VOA: special.2010.01.10

The winner of the race gets to add its block to the blockchain, and in that block it can credit itself a fixed number of new bitcoins (currently 25 BTC) as a reward for participating in this process.

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And as we live in the most economically advanced country in the world, wherever oil is discovered, a lot of it ends up in the U.S. as a reward for our productivity.

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Britain has long enjoyed close relations with the Arab world but Mr Cameron was in opposition when Tony Blair helped rehabilitate Colonel Qaddafi as a reward for giving up his weapons of mass destruction, forsaking terrorism and helping out in the fight against al-Qaeda.

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