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Only Right. Carmakers grant rebates to dealers on autos sold during the cleanup. The average rebate is $200, but it can run much higher on expensive models. This bonus is what enables dealers to pare prices in late summer. It is only right that the buyer pay a lower price than usual because a car sold late in the model year has already suffered a good deal of depreciation; in a few weeks it will be "last year's car," worth about $700 less for a compact and $2,000 less for some luxury models. During the next...
...brilliant 18-1 record that included five no-hitters and 259 strikeouts in 105 innings. In the Series, he struck out 47 batters in three games, and scouts from ten teams scrambled for him. Baltimore finally picked up the 17-year-old fire-bailer with an $80,000 bonus and packed him off to the Victoria, Tex., Rosebuds...
...Wrath and In Dubious Battle; yet field work remains one of the most unpleasant of human occupations. It demands long hours of back-breaking labor, often in choking dust amid insects and under a flaming sun. The harvesttime wage for grape pickers averages $1.65 an hour, plus a 250 bonus for each box picked, while the current federal minimum wage...
...Club." Each member was weighed in by the company doctor, and a goal-his optimum weight-was set. Each was given as many weeks as he had pounds to lose. If he makes his specified weight by that deadline, he is paid 1½ of his annual salary; the bonus will be renewed every year for as long as he stays in trim. Thus a $20,000-a-year man stands to gain $300 annually...
...found overweight lost a total of 80 Ibs. Sales Manager Ed Burns, 50, who has to reduce from his original 199 Ibs. to 179, vows that he will make it even if he has to live in a sauna. The trouble is, he says, that if he wins the bonus, he will have to spend it all on altering his clothes...