Thank you for a wonderful compilation.

Rewards for meeting deadlines?  Hmmm...  This issue is oft-debated.
I am of the personal opinion that the only way to create enforceable
deadlines is to do a statistically valid sampling of submitting
investigators to determine the behaviors involved with NOT meeting
deadlines, complete with rating instruments, etc.  Then, one might
find out what would work in MOST cases.  But, even then, we would be
faced with the inevitable questions, "What are valid exceptions, or
do you a draw a line in the sand and that's it?"  Apparently very few
institutions have been able so far to draw that line in the sand.
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