Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MBTA and the Metropolitan District Commission (which maintains many of Boston's parks and historic sites), that have helped keep downtown Boston the center of the region's economic, cultural and recreational activities. Public projects like the Big Dig also build civic pride, and carry the added bonus of temporary new jobs...
...pays at the upper end of the industry scale and provides full health insurance, a discount stock-purchase plan and a cash profit-sharing bonus. The company has offered flex-time for 20 years and has incorporated job sharing, compressed work weeks and telecommuting...
...Fitzpatrick's habit of using fantasies to escape the melancholic moments in life. While singing these tunes, the lights dim and Fitzpatrick appears to be transported to a magical place where life's obstacles are forgotten, and she carries the audience and their problems with her. As an added bonus, Fitzpatrick complements the lyrics on "Wishing" with breathy non-verbal vocals that add an extra dimension to the illusion and broadens Fitzpatrick's appeal...
...watch the acquisition lose $100 million in 1995. Quaker's stock has fallen from $37.50 to $33 in the past year, even as the market bubbled. So CEO Bill Smithburg is under pressure to get profits flowing again at the $6.3 billion company. The board even canceled his bonus. Quaker's Gatorade sports drink is No. 1 in its category. But the company has more modest aims for Snapple, which has less than 5% of the soft-drink market and tons of competitors. Quaker is spending $40 million on a series of humorous TV spots that alternately praise rival colas...
...even worse. Only one lot was sold. Negative cash flow was over $75,000, requiring even more payments from McDougal. At about the same time he was retaining Hillary and the Rose firm, McDougal had Madison Financial, his S&L's investment subsidiary, pay him a "bonus" of $30,000, payable to Whitewater, according to minutes of a Madison board meeting. The money was deposited directly in the Whitewater account, the one instance where money went directly from Madison into Whitewater. The Clintons weren't asked for, nor did they make, any payments during those years...