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...more likely to stay beyond the usual one-year contract. The family pays the girl's passage and related expenses (plus a fee to the agency), is paid back over ten months in installments deducted from her salary, but almost always returns the original investment as a bonus at the end of the girl's stay...
...doughnut-shaped; their sales appeal is gauged less by flavor and nutrition than by the servings of toy automobiles, plastic submarines, code-message rings and baseball cards buried among the flakes or offered on the label. This week. Cereal Giant General Mills moves to serve a better after-breakfast bonus. On 45 million boxes of nine "Big G" cereals. General Mills will offer juvenile crunchers a serious, 48-page "Nature's Wonderland Stamp Album." For one boxtop and 30?, a kid can be the first in his neighborhood to study 45 species of wildlife with the aid of fact...
...commission basis or made a direct pitch by longdistance phone. In Moscow he organized a ring of bright students to take his clients' entrance exams. The ringers were experts at passing just well enough to attract no attention; they got $2.88 a day plus an $11 bonus for each test. As an added service, Pkhaladze supplied term papers on a piece-rate basis of $22 to $77 and bribed conniving college officials...
...minor satisfactions of life is the sight of a bartender pouring a little above the white line that graces most shot glasses. To most tipplers, the line signifies an ounce, and they are pleased by what seems to be a bonus. In fact the bartender's generosity is only good psychology: even when filled to the top, few shot glasses nowadays hold the ounce of whisky that everyone thinks he is getting. Instead, the trusting drinker may be tossing off anything from a half-ounce to seven-eighths...
...earth station in Maine was a TV camera's view of the American flag waving near the ground tracking facilities, while a sound track carried The Star-Spangled Banner and America the Beautiful. Scientists had expected Telstar to transmit only in the U.S., but they got a bonus. British televiewers, still up at 1 a.m., caught only a wavering picture of the Vice President before the view was lost, but in France the reception was so loud and clear that technicians at Pleumeur-Bodou compared it favorably with the quality of a transmission from 20 miles away...