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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mention that the year before Transit went broke its chairman, George Bowie (whose criminal fraud trial begins Jan. 4), was paid a $650,000 bonus? Way to go, George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not A Sure Thing | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

Religion. Be Jewish. I already am, so this is easy for me. Just wear a yarmulke and you're free to hide whatever coverage problems might come your way. They have all different colors and sizes, depending on your needs. Plus you score bonus points with...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: Hair Today. . . | 10/13/1990 | See Source »

...Religion. Join the Hare Krishna movement. To fit in, you need only a pink rayon robe and a long shock of hair on the back of your head, which is not a problem with my baldness pattern. They shave the rest of your head and everyone's happy. A bonus is the swell performance opportunities in front of the Coop on Saturday nights (I want the tambourine) and the "delicious 10-course vegetarian feasts" advertised on the little leaflets they hand...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: Hair Today. . . | 10/13/1990 | See Source »

...refer to former CBS chief Thomas Wyman as "the goy upstairs" and to Wyman's successor, the frugal Laurence Tisch, with whom he feuded openly, as "the kike upstairs." When Tisch sold the record company to Sony, Yetnikoff, who engineered the deal, walked away with a $20 million bonus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Music King's Shattering Fall | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

Saddam Hussein has been called a lot of things during the past month, but at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange he's known as "Mr. Bonus." Yearly bonuses at the Merc are keyed to the number of broker transactions, and the 1990 figures were looking grim -- until the invasion of Kuwait stirred up huge action in Eurodollars and stock-index futures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's An Ill Wind | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

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