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...anything, such words encourage G.O.P.ers. Emboldened by the expectation that Alito's victory is secure, they are happy to drag out the debate an extra week. Doing so may produce a bonus by moving a vote confirming Alito closer to the State of the Union address on Jan. 31, allowing the President to showcase...
...sell Lamborghinis or $3 million penthouses in New York City, no doubt you'll be happy to learn that the combined bonus pool on Wall Street for last year's labor, which will be paid out in coming weeks, rose 16% to an all-time high of $21.5 billion, according to New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi. He's as happy as any Lower Manhattan diamond dealer. Those bonuses will bestow $1.5 billion of tax revenue on New York state's budget and another $500 million on New York City's budget, and by extension benefit all state residents...
...course the biggest beneficiaries are those who get the mammoth checks and, in not a few instances, are so thankful they head straight for the door and sign up with a different brokerage promising them even greater riches next year. These do not include secretaries and clerks, whose bonuses run $10,000 or so. The folks who do the heavy lifting-that is, bankers who dream up odds-are-they'll-fail mergers over bottles of wine that cost $1,000 and traders who pass around the same piece of paper all day adding God-only-knows-what value...
...both halves, Dartmouth committed seven team fouls well before the end of the period, putting the Crimson in the foul-shooting bonus...
...other team’s shooting the bonus with six, seven minutes to go in the game, and we’re not even close to being in the bonus,” Big Green coach Terry Dunn said. “We’re not getting to the lane, and we’re not getting to the free-throw line. We just didn’t do a very good job of adjusting to the way the game was being called...