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...supplemental unemployment funds that allows most laid-off workers to continue to receive 95% of their base take-home pay; but those funds could run out within six months. Out in suburban Bloomfield Hills and Grosse Pointe, meanwhile, auto executives gloomily ponder the prospect that normally generous year-end bonuses will be painfully thin this year. Says one Ford executive: "If there's no bonus, we'll have to scrape...
...notably Hodgkin's disease and leukemia, have shown remarkable remissions under treatment. Infant mortality is less than 19 per thousand, and the contemporary child can expect to live four years longer than his parents. This may be a mixed blessing, considering our bafflement about how to use those bonus years, but it is still impressive that adults today may be expected to enjoy the greatest longevity of any Americans in history...
Later, during the Allied breakout from the Cherbourg peninsula, came a Hitlerian command reflex that the Ultra team had learned to expect. Every time things went wrong, Winterbotham notes, "Hitler invariably took remote control, which was a bonus, since most of his signals went on the air." This time Hitler's frantic radio orders gave Eisenhower "the master plan straight from the Fuehrer." With the Nazis trapped at Falaise, Eisenhower sent General Patton plunging east toward Germany. "Without Ultra," Winterbotham argues, "we might have had to meet the Russians on the Rhine instead of the Elbe, and they would...
Roth received bonus playoff money after his first year in the Junior A Canadian program, while Janicek tried out for a Junior A team when he was only...
MUELNER WAS LUCKY: other victims of these "bonus" arrests were tried and convicted. There are no firm figures, but by reliable estimates, more than 80 per cent of arrests stemming from airport searches have nothing to do with aircraft security. The contraband seized in these cases is drugs and pornography, not guns and knives. (The FAA has now posted signs in the 531 U.S. commercial airports telling passengers of their right to avoid searches...