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...company have risen at an annual average of 20% for the last four years at least gives him something to look forward to. Moreover, he gets more than a month off in paid vacation and holidays. In addition, the company inspires productivity through a generous system of bonuses geared to profits; this year profits were high enough to allow every Toyota employee to collect a handsome bonus of 6.1 months...
...Surprise Bonus. Bartter and his colleagues reasoned that if they could boost the blood's calcium content safely, the effect would be to slow down the loss of calcium from bone. They chose a compound containing calcium gluconate and infused it into the patients' veins. They settled on a dose of 1 gram (1/30 oz.) for a 145-lb. man and took four hours to administer it to avoid overstimulating the heart. The infusions were given twelve times, a day or two apart...
...only did nine of the first twelve patients report relief from pain and regain their ability to move about and lift objects without suffering fractures, but there was also a bonus that Dr. Bartter had scarcely dared to hope for. The treatment's effect lasted for months, and in one case for more than two years. If the effect wears off, Bartter says, the infusions can be easily and safely repeated. While no one yet claims to know what 'makes nature's calcium-regulating mechanism go wrong, medical science now has a way to put it right...
...rewards for risk-taking can be great. Last year Salomon Bros, partners got about a 30% return on their invested capital and had six-figure incomes. And in May, at the bottom of the bear market, all 900 employees collected a 60th-anniversary bonus of two weeks' salary...
...Bonus Sentences. Both bills propose stiff sentences for offenders. In the District of Columbia, judges would be prohibited from giving less than five years to anyone convicted of a second armed crime. The organized crime act would let federal judges anywhere give up to 30 years to criminals who had two previous felony convictions or whose crime was part of a vague "pattern of criminal conduct." This would permit not only long terms for mobsters convicted of penny-ante crimes, but it would also let judges impose bonus sentences for alleged conduct that was never proved in a trial that...