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...assertion in TIME about my salary is incorrect. The fact is my total compensation dropped 4.2% in 1982. My compensation (salary and bonus) in 1981 was $1,448,883 and in 1982, $1,388,072. It did not, as TIME claims, increase 36% in the face of the company's 1982 drop in earnings. Unfortunately, instead of researching the piece with sources available here at Mobil, TIME appears to have relied upon a secondary source. Clearly, the research was faulty, at least to the extent it touched...
...weeks after Betty Gloss won $6 million in the Illinois lottery last October, a police officer carrying a birth certificate visited the home of the winner and her husband Arthur. "I'm your son," the officer said to Mr. Gloss. "I'm Arthur Gloss Jr." As a bonus to the Glosses' monetary bonanza, the publicity from winning the lottery reunited Arthur Gloss with his three sons from a previous marriage, whom he had not seen since his divorce in 1949. The happy reunion is one of many unexpected tales, some joyful and others dispiriting, from among...
...Betjeman poet laureate, a title once held by Tennyson and Wordsworth, but ill health curtailed his productivity over the past decade. One of his last collections, A Nip in the Air, concluded with a poignant epitaph: "Now if the harvest is over/ And the world cold/ Give me the bonus of laughter/ As I lose hold...
...signed a contract, the terms of which he chose not to disclose. "They gave me a signing bonus," he said, but he chuckled that his was "substantially less" than the seven-figure package hauled in by Buffalo's, first-round pick...
...added bonus on the tour will be a stop to watch several matches at the prestigious Wimbeldon Tournament...