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...self-confident Haig made no secret of his belief that he could handle the job. Concluding that he could not win enough support to the Republican nomination he dropped the idea and accepted Harry Gray's offer of the presidency of United Technologies Corp. His salary and bonus totalled $1 million. Haig had been at United Technologies not quite a year when President-elect Reagan called him to be Secretary of State...
...predecessor companies, and the heir to the 30,000-acre Thomson Ranch near San Antonio. Having reportedly been passed over for the presidency of Exxon, Barrow was on his way back home to manage his ranch when Kennecott snared him with a Texas-size contract. Barrow's salary, bonus and incentive payments in 1979 totaled about $1.2 million, which made him one of the highest-paid executives in America...
...fact that she is a woman is an added bonus," Walter J. Kaiser '54, professor of English and Comparative Literature, said yesterday, adding that "we would not have hired her if she was not a first rate scholar...
...were pretty much writing this year off," he said when asked about McCabe's knee, "but I looked at the films of the Cornell game and saw that he played well for the time he did play, so I decided to put him in earlier. This is a definite bonus...
People testily debated the treatment accorded the so-called Bonus Marchers -a plucky contingent of some 20,000 veterans who, invading Washington to demand bonus money, got instead an official bum's rush from Congress, backed up by troops commanded by Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur. Was that any way to treat men who fought in the war? The World War, that is. It did not yet own a Roman numeral...