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Hinz also received a signing bonus, which will increase as long as he stays in training camp...
...Department of Energy owns the plants, and private corporations operate them. During the Reagan Administration, the report said, Energy Secretary John S. Herrington inadvertently encouraged unsafe practices with a "buddy bonus system" and a "mind-set" that rewarded production over safety. An unidentified executive who "allowed health and safety to deteriorate" received a big cash bonus, and was praised as an "outstanding manager and leader" by Herrington's Under Secretary Joseph Salgado...
...banker I know went bankrupt not long ago. He had let his debts get the better of him and had gambled recklessly in the market. But he was of essentially good character and excellent financial prospects, so if only his creditors had borne with him until he got his bonus, everything would have been fine. "Sure, sure," said three of his creditors, who had heard it all before. They forced him into bankruptcy over $60,000. Six months later, he got a quarter of a million dollars bonus and paid off all his creditors except the three. When his rage...
...also too conservative for the risk-to-reward ratio of the $25-a-pop blackjack table? They have come at the invitation of their favorite financial- newsletter editors, who are still trying to come back from the 1987 crash and have offered this investment seminar as a subscription-renewal bonus ("A $500 retail value! Act now! Air fare and hotel not included"). They are here because they are eager students of the market, even if temporarily absent from it, and they are determined to figure the whole thing out, or find somebody else who can figure it out for them...
...business," a Chicago moneyman said, "you can survive just about anything." But some managers saw no end to hard times. Mused Desmond Heathwood, chief investment officer of the Los Angeles branch of Boston Co., a unit of Shearson Lehman: "To have one's job will be the bonus this year...