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Many U.S. executives savored fat bonuses last month after their companies pulled in record sales and profits. But not Lawrence Coss, the chief executive officer of mobile-home lender Green Tree Financial, who in 1996 surprisingly topped the list of highest-paid corporate leaders--overshadowing such titans as the Travelers Group's Sanford Weill and Walt Disney's Michael Eisner. Whoops! To his dismay, Coss may have to repay $40 million of the $102 million bonus he received that year because Green Tree now concedes that accounting errors led it to overstate profits. Says the taciturn and reclusive Coss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Good To Be True | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...puts us at a definite disadvantage comparedto other schools," he said. "Being able to trainand play year-round is definitely a bonus. It's atleast going to give us a step...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Athletic Field Will Have Artificial Turf | 2/12/1998 | See Source »

...being, we streakers assert our fleshy, warm-blooded freedom. From the roaring din and flapping flesh of the midnight hour, we conjure forth the revolutionary spirit, to remind ourselves that it still exists behind the redbrick walls of the ivory tower. Plus, everyone's naked, and that's big bonus...

Author: By Joel B. Pollak, | Title: Running Proud | 2/4/1998 | See Source »

...Francisco and Suurkask] play off of each other so well, "said Stone. "They just find each other somehow. They're a bonus to our team...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Smokes B.C. in 'Pot, 6-4 | 2/4/1998 | See Source »

After the catapult is constructed, the next bonus for those assigned to the Quad should be a Quad Beverage Geyser. This would be an enormous underground beverage reservoir underneath the grass of the Quad, which once every week would erupt like Old Faithful. Quadlings could then gather in front of their dorms with buckets and cups and catch the beverage-of-the-week as it falls. Certain landscaping difficulties could result--Jim Beam Week would probably kill all the grass, and Orange Tang week would leave a stain that could be seen from space--but these are minor difficulties that...

Author: By David S. Farenthold, | Title: A Few Immodest Proposals | 1/29/1998 | See Source »

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