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...Bonus for Votes. Several political inventions have helped spawn Uruguay's many factions. The most wondrous is the "double simultaneous ballot," which lets the voter pick the party he wants to win the major offices and at the same time choose candidates to fill these offices from the particular faction that he favors within the party. Also making for splintering is a freehanded provision of the law, designed to cover campaign expenses, that requires the government to pay each group $1.30 in advance for every vote it expects to get. (After the election, they have to pay back...
...Crimson missed its best chance to score during this period when penalties left B.C. with just four men on the ice. B.C. was given the same bonus in the final period but brilliant goaltending by Flynn and the defensive work, of Manchester and Cooledge prevented any scoring...
...Among the recent converts: Chicago's Bell & Howell camera company; Manhattan's ad agency, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne; the National City Bank. A fortnight ago, Eastman Kodak, one of the early profit-sharers, declared a "wage dividend" of $28.5 million for its 53,000 employees, an average bonus for each employee of more than $500 for the year...
...gods who had endowed Wilde so richly with comic gifts refused to allow him the bonus of tragedy. Apart from The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Wilde produced nothing in the three years between his release from prison and his death (in 1900, of cerebral meningitis). Humor was his nature, sorrow only his perversity-as he himself may have realized, for it is said that when confronted with a huge bill for a surgical operation toward the end of his life, he sank back into the arms of the Comic Muse, saying: "Ah, well, then, I suppose that I shall have...
...waiting for him with open pocketbooks. In those days the newly formed All-America Conference was fighting for its life (it eventually folded in 1949), and competitive bidding gave players a better break than they have known before or since. Bobby finally signed with the Chicago Bears for a bonus of $10,000, a salary of $18,000 and promised raises...