Word: bonuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...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...
...Schmultzie." "This is a relaxed company," says Ferkauf, "so there is no need for formalities." At Korvette's, in fact, it is imprudent of any executive to throw his rank around. One store manager who got too highhanded with his subordinates was conspicuously omitted from a stock bonus list. Says he: "I'm nothing but a nice guy now. I learned the hard...
...fans showed up for last week's Open-25,000 more than the old Open record. And with the swelling crowds comes big money. Ten years ago, Julius Boros took home $4,000 for winning the Open; last week Nicklaus won $15,000, plus an "unofficial" bonus of $2,500 for the playoff. Such is the excitement generated by big-money pro tournaments that publicity-minded business firms are getting into the act. Next September, at Akron's Firestone Country Club, Nicklaus, Palmer and two other golfers will perform in front of TV cameras in the most exclusive...
...variable-geometry wing may even supply an unexpected bonus. If it enables an airplane to reach high supersonic speeds a few feet above the ground, its shock wave may be sufficiently destructive for use as a military weapon, knocking holes in most structures that the plane flies near. And when a supersonic airliner is finally developed, it may well have variable wings to get it off the ground at reasonable speed and help it climb to high altitude without using too much fuel...