Word: bonuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bonus. When the exchange was completed, Donovan, who had been exchanging quips with Castro for hours, mentioned casually that it was a shame that the African Pilot would return to Miami empty. Castro said he would fill it with 1,000 relatives of the prisoners, called it his "Christmas bonus." Some bonus. As it turned out, 922 were permitted to sail-but only after signing over all their property and possessions to Castro's Communist government...
...been realized, neither have the highest hopes. Sunday-supplement visions of impending universal plenty, with nuclear reactors supplying unlimited cheap power, were grossly premature. Nuclear reactors still cannot produce electric power as cheaply as thermoelectric plants fueled with coal or oil. But mankind has received a huge, unforeseen bonus from the radioisotopes created in nuclear reactors. They are used in countless applications in industry and science, from detecting tiny, hidden flaws in machinery parts to tracing physiological processes in the human body...
...Bean's 115 workers also get an annual bonus, which last year amounted to 30% of wages...
...better ways to free them for better teaching. As a result, Pittsburgh boasts the nation's biggest team-teaching effort (8,500 pupils), a solid start in Advanced Placement courses, "lay-reader" housewives who grade English compositions, a 25% higher salary for beginning teachers, and a 10% merit bonus for master teachers. Last year applications for teaching in Pittsburgh schools rose 65%. A skilled lobbyist, Gross quietly wrested $1,500,000 from experiment-minded foundations, got the state legislature to pass a i% wage tax for Pittsburgh schools. Gross calls himself "a three-R man," says...
J.F.K. could have brought Jackie, Caroline, Macaroni and Bobby with him into Michigan, thrown in the Hollywood "rat pack" as an added bonus, and still not have succeeded in swinging any significant number of Democratic, let alone Republican, votes back to Governor Swainson...