Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President, whose tiny National Reconstruction Party has only a handful of congressional seats, has vowed to veto the bill, a move certain to be unpopular. To avoid a backlash at the polls two months from now in congressional elections, the government will offer low-income workers a onetime wage bonus. Following through on the rest of his program will depend heavily on the returns from those elections, when as many as 70% of the current legislators may be replaced. The question is whether the infusion of fresh blood will help Collor in his drive toward the First World -- or will...
...week when the President made his dramatic turnabout. Bush was also engaged in last- minute telephone talks with Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu on a long-range program to shrink America's $50 billion annual trade gap with Japan. Bush's statement on "increased tax revenues" produced a timely bonus: it met the principal Japanese demand that the U.S. bring down the federal deficit...
...bonus, some of the paintings are being seen in the U.S. for the first time. Most of the best work that Morocco evoked from Matisse was bought by those two pioneer collectors Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morosov and has remained in Leningrad's Hermitage and Moscow's Pushkin museums since the Russian revolution. As no reproduction has ever done justice to the peculiar intensity of the thin, washed, yet highly saturated color Matisse developed in Morocco, one is grateful that the components of this phase of his work have at last been reunited. Matisse was a mature painter...
...final contest in Rome on July 8? Highly unlikely. In 1950 an unheralded U.S. squad shook the soccer establishment to its shoelaces by beating mighty England in a Cup game. But in this age of cautious play, when winning the Cup can net international stars $250,000 each in bonus money, the Americans will probably go winless. In the first round they are up against veteran squads from Austria, Czechoslovakia and Italy, a three-time champion. Bookmakers give the U.S only a 1-in-500 chance of bringing home the Cup. But U.S. Coach Bob Gansler gamely vows that...
...billion in foreign aid has met with heavy resistance. Now some in the Bush Administration are considering using a carrot: encouraging Israel to make peace with the Palestinians by increasing aid. They recall the Camp David accords, in which U.S. aid served as a sort of signing bonus. The rationale then was to compensate Israel for the security costs caused by surrender of the Sinai. The same justification is being considered again: if Israel trades land for peace, the U.S. should defray any expenses associated with the added security risk...