Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might be silly, but lingerie is really a grownup version of playing dress-up. The added bonus is that you get to wear the stuff out of the house. Whether it stays under wraps or makes an appearance on a subway or at a Thanksgiving dinner, lingerie is totally indulgent...
...event on Wall Street in the '80s was more artfully avaricious than the payout of over $250 million in employee bonuses shortly before the collapse of Drexel Burnham Lambert. The bonus bonanza -- which totaled more than twice the amount of the debt on which Drexel defaulted -- helped push the firm over the edge, as it struggled with mounting lawsuits over the dealings of its junk- bond division. Now the reorganized company is suing the recipients of its largesse to recover the loot...
...victory for a latecomer cannot be called flatly impossible. Two changes in delegate-selection rules since 1988 make it at least thinkable. The Democrats have got rid of the "bonus" rules under which, for instance, Michael Dukakis in 1988 won 66% of Florida's delegates with only 41% of the state's primary votes. All primaries this year will be conducted under a system of rough proportional representation. That decreases the chances that any candidate can lock up a majority of delegates early...
...Publishing's profits are not doled out to the "students managers" in bonus checks. The truth is that if HSA paid wages to over 1,200 Harvard students in nonmanagement positions last year...
...executives have had a tremendous downturn in their earnings for the past two years. We did not pay any bonuses at GM last year, and the way earnings are headed I can't see any bonus on the horizon this year either. But I don't really feel sorry for any Japanese chief executive. He enjoys a very good life-style. I'll be happy to exchange pay with any Japanese...