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Cookie Monster: Michael Milken, Leona Helmsley, the Harvard Management Corporation--we all know greed. Cookie Monster is that cute, cuddly creature who goes absolutely bonkers at the mention of cookies. Just substitute "$65,000 plus performance bonus!" for "cookie!" and you can set off the same frenzy at the Office of Career Services...
...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...
Next she invited Ortega. At the end of their 90-minute discussion, the Sandinista leader stood beside Chamorro on her doorstep and announced, "I want to make it clear that on April 25 there will be a transfer of power." As a bonus concession, Ortega also announced that visa requirements for Americans seeking to enter Nicaragua had been lifted. Then the past and future Presidents hugged...
...thing you might have done differently was not to take your own $2.5 million bonus in the form of Drexel stock, which is now virtually worthless...
...wife would certainly say that. I took the bonus in stock to encourage other employees to do the same. At least nobody could accuse me of having some prophet's ability to predict the coming crisis...