Word: bonuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hottest listing on the board, which contains only local stocks is Kowloon Docks, which last week declared a 35? dividend and $1.40 bonus, at once leaped to $16.47, a week's gain of $3.68. Other active stocks are local telephone and textile companies...
...same status as U.S. producers." By selling to the U.S. instead of on the world market, Cuba last year got, in effect, a subsidy of "more than $150 million." In addition, a preferential tariff, 20% lower for Cuba than for sugar from other countries, gave Cuban exporters another bonus of almost $8,000,000. Said State: "It would be logical to conclude from Major Guevara's remarks that he considers that such 'enslavement' would end were we to abandon our preferential treatment as regards Cuban sugar and pay the lower world market price...
...firm a divisional setup much like General Motors', streamlined administration, pruned departments that had only tradition to recommend them. He brought in young men, gave them a great deal of liberty. Says he: "I think that confidence produces far better results than surveillance." In addition to a productivity bonus that nets employees an average 30% over their base pay, Pechiney last Christmas gave employees nearly 32,000 shares worth $2,000,000 on the Paris Bourse...
...officers due to go, the adjustment is going to be tough; in theoretically classless Russia, the officer caste enjoys high status and perquisites. To induce veterans to settle in the labor-short central Asian "virgin lands," the state is offering free land, low-interest loans, and a bonus of 600 rubles ($60). Last week the first ex-servicemen arrived in the harsh pioneer land of Kazakhstan, where the Communist leader was fired recently after a quarter of the wheat crop went unharvested for lack of workers...
...ideal state's biggest taxpayers should be its biggest voters. The real fat-cat taxpayers would each get seven votes, the lower 40% brack-eteers only a vote apiece. But Author Hunt defends his system not as plutocracy but as incomeocracy: "It is the taxpayer who gets the bonus, not the rich man . . . It's like a corporation: the greatest stockholders have the greatest votes." In Alpaca, it all comes out like this: " 'Will you help me further this plan for just government? Will you do me the honor of working with me . . .?' 'Yes, Achala...