Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Halcion was first approved for sale in the U.S. in 1982, doctors thought they had found the perfect sleeping pill. Like its chemical cousins Librium and Valium, it was safer than barbiturates. As an added bonus, Halcion did not linger in the body the way most of its predecessors did, and therefore it did not leave people groggy the next day. Within a few years, the drug, produced by Upjohn of Kalamazoo, Mich., became the most prescribed sleeping pill in the world. In 1990 American pharmacists filled more than 7 million orders. Satisfied customers include Secretary of State James...
...Employees with more than 20 years of service received a one-time bonus...
...bureaucrat--whom Gov. William F. Weld '66 declared his "favorite employee on the state payroll," received a $10,000 bonus. Go figure...
...bureaucrat--whom Gov. William F. Weld '66 declared his "favorite employee on the state payroll," received a $10,000 bonus. Go figure...
...great invention, Mullis got nothing more than a one-time $10,000 bonus from his former employer, Cetus. Today he works and lives out of rented rooms on a beach near San Diego. A consultant for biotech firms, he lectures and plays as much as he can. His latest game: photographing women wearing nothing but multicolored patterns of light. His ideas continue to bubble forth like an uncontrolled chemical reaction. He believes the AIDS virus alone cannot account for the epidemic. He wants to create a computer program that will trick the senses into believing they've landed...