Word: bonuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University's first choice for the location of a tenth House called for in the Program for Harvard College. Since February, 1958, the Administration has offered to buy the land for $4 million, a price which includes five dollars per square foot, plus an additional million as a bonus payment...
Besides the bonus offer, the University has set forth other proposals to offset civic opposition caused by the tax situation. The Administration said it would construct not only the one (or perhaps two) new Houses, but also several commercial buildings--a garage, apartment houses, or a bank--which would make at least half the disputed area taxable property...
...prediction is a record number for this time of year of 850,000 new cars in dealers' hands, enough to last for about 56 days at the current rate of sales and 125,000 more cars than were on hand last year. To move them, automakers are offering bonuses to dealers as high as $250 for each sale, but many automen candidly admit that much of the steam was stolen from the cleanup drive by similar bonus sales held last spring...
...Summer bonus: four remarkably fine first novels. The Bridge, by Manfred Gregor, a brisk, bitter account of teen-age Nazi conscripts, thrown into the suicidal campaign of 1945; Now and at the Hour, by Robert Cormier, the touching story of how death brings dignity to an obscure factory worker; To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, an uncommonly well-written tale about the irregular but effective education of the most appealing little Southern girl since Carson McCullers' Frankie; and The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, by Lester Goran, more growing pains, but this time those of a less savory hero...
...goods overseas, has its stores built for it, spends little for advertising or promotion. Clothing sells for 15% to 50% less than in the U.S., watches for 55% less, quality cameras for up to 45% less. And by buying from the PX, the soldier is actually dealing himself a bonus: all PX profits go to military welfare funds...