Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quad is new and spacious and not kind of old and scary like the River houses," said Chris J. Nicholson '97, an advocate of Cabot House's new public access FAX and other "friendly and expansive" facilities. "We're close to the Q-RAC; that's a super-bonus...and we have tennis courts...
...public message on a bulletin board and at the bottom sign my name, encoded with my private key. You can then decode my signature using my public key and be confident that it was indeed me who posted the message. This kind of "message authenticity" is a powerful bonus of public-key encryption...
Dress to impress; somebody does care what comes between you and your Calvins. Yes, that nasty old underwear and ripped t-shirt will see you through the end of the laundry cycle, but they will not win you any bonus points in the romance department...
...Hong Kong. For Chan there's no place like home. "In Asia I'm kind of like E.T.," he says. "Everybody comes to see my films. There are billions of people in Asia, and they're my first audience. If I get an American audience, O.K., that's a bonus. If not, that's O.K. too. I'm very happy...
...poverty rung of the economic ladder, but they've been pushed up by rising Social Security benefits. President Nixon deserves much of the credit for this. Before he came along, Social Security payments were raised only when Congress decided--usually around election time--to give retired voters a bonus. Since Nixon put in the automatic cost-of-living increase, the surest way to improve your lot in life...