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...equivalent of two or three men's work out of one high-priced executive. They have also discovered that the company plane, put occasionally at the disposal of a high-salaried man for vacation jaunts, gives him a better incentive than any heavily taxed cash bonus...
...taxes on my house came due. That's $140. I've got a boy in junior high, and he was yelling for gym clothes." When Gramm went back, North American gave him its offered pay boost of 8? an hour, plus living-cost bonus of 2? (the union had asked for an average hourly increase of 26?, plus other benefits), jumping his hourly wage to $1.97. Said Gramm: "That's as much as anybody in this area is making. Maybe it ain't like the automobile boys, but it's still good around here...
...midst of readying a drastic tax program to strengthen Brazil's new austerity regime, Aranha also successfully fought off an inflationary congressional proposal to pay 145,000 government workers an extra month's salary as a Christmas bonus. "It would be crazy," stormed Aranha. "Brazil is like a family that has no funds but wants to give a luxurious party...
...until at 16 he ran away, lied about his age and joined the Marines. After 18 months in the Pacific, he was discharged, attended the University of Southern California for three years, then bought a one-way ticket to Europe with his $250 New York State serviceman's bonus. In Paris, he lived on his $75 G.I. Bill allowance, finally talked Variety into letting him do occasional reporting. Three months later, he went to the Paris Herald Tribune, and last year persuaded the paper to run his column in its New York home edition...
Certainly Harvard should shy from anything that would lead to Princeton's system of rigid, almost dictatorial, control. With all its enticements of bonus pools and guaranteed minimums--siphoned from weekly earnings--Nassau's version of the welfare state would not thrive in Cambridge. The situation is too different, with many more jobs available nearby, more complete service offered by local merchants, and thus, less variety of goods that students can sell in the College...