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Other creative benefits can take a variety of shapes, some of them just plain fun. Jerry Daly, president of Daly Gray, a Northfield, N.J., public relations firm with six employees and annual billings of $1 million, donates some of his frequent-flyer miles to his staff. Daly's practice of letting employees add vacation days to business trips if they want allows his firm to save on airfare--because of cut-rate Saturday-night-stayover airline prices. And his grateful employees get the added benefit of a mini-vacation at no cost to them. "I may be competing with...
While corporate welfare has attracted critics from both the left and the right, there is no uniform definition. By TIME's definition, it is this: any action by local, state or federal government that gives a corporation or an entire industry a benefit not offered to others. It can be an outright subsidy, a grant, real estate, a low-interest loan or a government service. It can also be a tax break--a credit, exemption, deferral or deduction, or a tax rate lower than the one others...
College-educated blacks may also achievesuccess because they benefit from more affirmativeaction programs after graduation, when they applyto graduate schools or jobs, Thernstrom added...
Start training for the Boston Volvo Village Thanksgiving Day 5K Road Race. No one should ever run without some sort of preparation first (unless, of course, you are Eli Ceryak). The race is to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and all runners receive a long-sleeve t-shirt and a gift bag of sponsor goodies. Volunteers are also needed. Registration, 7:30 a.m., start time 9 a.m., Boston Volvo Village, 75 North Beacon St., Brighton. Runner...
...profit motive, which is--by its very nature--socially irresponsible. The primary intention is always to maximize private gain--to conceive of the world selfishly, as if there were no "incentive" to look out for fellow human beings. It systematically corrodes one's conscientious obligation to pursue activities that benefit society as a whole, and especially those activities that benefit society's most disadvantaged members, whose destitution is the true symbol of our dysfunctional reality...