Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Added leisure time is one bonus seniors cite post-thesis. However, many are eager to forego extra rest in order to address responsibilities neglected during weeks of late-night typing...
...more than $160,000 a year are ineligible, and if they earn $100,000 they can't convert an old IRA to the Roth. Boohoo for the rich? Not quite. A pair of big-city schoolteachers may not be able to convert, while some millionaires can. How? Defer a bonus. Take time off. For one year, just don't earn...
...remember my first summer as an umpire vividly. I was about to graduate high school, and I decided to make a little extra money for the summer by umpiring at the little league fields where I myself had played as a child. The money was really a bonus though, in retrospect, I would have done it for free, and I still would. Where else can you get a front-row view of an 11-year-old first baseman wearing futuristic sunglasses, blowing a bubble, winking at a girl he wishes was his girlfriend and dropping a hard throw from...
...Hilles. Hilles Library is right at your fingertips and it is the quietest, funkiest library at Harvard. Often, you find River folk up at Hilles seeking a place where they can actually get work done. And a bonus of this underutilized library is its fourth floor. Though the cafeteria there is not operational nowadays, the empty penthouse, as it is called, is worth visiting. The Morse Music Library, also on the floor, is really amazing--who would have thought Harvard owns George Carlin records...
...smartly said, "The reason I want to film the novel is that it's about honor, and that's the thing very good movies are about." That speech, and $1.5 million, put him over. Universal later reimbursed him for the rights (plus an almost equal amount tied to various bonus incentives) and also spent a reported $5 million to get him to direct and produce the film. Then Nichols...