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...some of the posters carried by pickets indicated, many GM employees are still angry about the huge bonuses that company executives gave themselves. GM Chairman Roger Smith last year got a bonus of $865,490 on top of his salary of $625,000. While the award might have been merited in view of the $3.7 billion GM earned in 1983, it was a dreadful labor relations blunder. Workers, who had been enduring wage freezes for more than two years, were outraged. Robert Sidwell, 45, a machinist at the Chevrolet plant in Parma, still has neither forgotten nor forgiven. Said...
...Viennese give this mettle tester a commanding reading, capturing the grandeur of its arresting introduction, the suavity of its incongruous waltz and the enigma of its bitonal ending. The rarely encountered, frankly Wagnerian tone poem Macbeth, Strauss's first attempt in the genre, makes an appealing, generous bonus...
...stay on the ground as much as possible. Promoters, though, try to play up the sport's dangerous in-the-air element. The most exciting part of this course was a large jump called the catapult; Diet Coke gives the driver who jumps the farthest a $1000 bonus. The fans love it, but it reinforces the idea that motocross is a show and not a sport...
...legislation would penalize states with lower drinking ages by withholding a portion of their federal highway funds. The Senate is expected this week to debate a proposal, sponsored by Democrat Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, containing the same punitive measures plus some bonus incentives for states that take additional steps against drunken driving. "This slaughter hurts us as a people," the President said. "It tears up the fabric of society by bringing grief to families, guilt to friends and loss to the community...
...that it would be good for the crew to have a woman on board because it would "give them courage." The captain, Chu Ching, 39, has made ten trips to Kharg Island in the past year and was going back this time because he would earn a $5,000 bonus. "Dangerous? That is non sense," he said stoically. "Nothing will happen...