Word: bonus
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...series), carrot-topped Rockett steers through the treacherous shoals of junior high using a storytelling strategy Laurel calls "emotional navigation." Players decide how to interact with other characters, guiding and shaping the story based on how they think Rockett is feeling about a given situation. As a bonus, Rockett can even sneak peeks into her classmates' lockers...
...Vine, wrote, "We try to get parent participation by sending home the weekly behavior charts of the students to be signed. However, no parents have sent their child's back. Also, homework given to the children is never brought back." In her response, mentor Cheryl Hilen wrote, "Offer bonus points, an incentive, or special privilege for kids who bring them back. Make a big deal about...
...applicants." By that they mean those willing to commit to a job in an economy that so often in the past has not been willing to commit to them. The ruthlessness of companies is now turning against them. The manager at the Kroger supermarket started offering employees a $100 bonus if they would just stay three months. "They'll quit a good job with benefits if somebody offers them 50 cents more," says Streitenberger. "They come in and tell me how much they want to make. And I'm sitting here looking at a high school graduate with no experience...
Formal incentive plans, the most fiscally aggressive of all legal plans, are block bonus payments--often a multiple of a professor's salary--dispersed at retirement. There is a minimum eligibility age, and the bonus decreases as the faculty member ages...
...logic behind the plan is that older faculty members, seeing that they will have to retire eventually, will see an incentive to leave early: Taking a block of money with them. The saved salary pays for the bonus if the chair is kept open for a time or if a junior faculty member is hired in place of the senior professor...