Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wamba, and what they found confirmed their worst fears. Though 121 whites were still alive, another 28 had been brutally massacred. Most of the dead were Belgians - including Monsignor Joseph-Pierre Albert Wittebols, Bishop of Wamba. Most of the survivors were Greeks - who had paid for their lives with cash and cooperation...
...began honoring another kind of excellence: legal writing. The need is clear. At its jargon-free best, legal literature inspires the court decisions that shape U.S. society. Yet legal writers usually toil obscurely for arcane law reviews. Even when they publish books, their reward is likely to be petty cash and a paucity of public praise...
Just when he should have been able to sit back and listen to the jingling cash registers, Stanley Marcus, president of Dallas' famed Neiman-Marcus, last week paced a smoke-blackened, rubble-filled office. In his hand he carried a walkie-talkie to keep in touch with work crews cleaning up the results of a $10 million fire that swept the seven-story department store just five days before Christmas. Marcus, who manned the fire lines with firemen while his wife served them coffee, promised "to come out of these ashes like a phoenix." Fully insured against both fire...
...year-end bonus of cash is not as popular as it used to be, partly because of labor's taste for bigger contractual fringe benefits and partly because of management's growing preference for more sophisticated executive incentives. Even so, the Bureau of Labor Statistics figures that U.S. manufacturers are paying production workers more than $600 million in year-end bonuses this season. Many millions more will go to executives and office help in such places as Detroit, where auto vice presidents often get bonuses equal to twice their salaries, and Wall Street, where 1964's record...
Next week, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., the nation's largest stockbrokers, will pay a record $9,700,000 cash bonus to 8,650 employees, 22% more than a year ago and an average of $1,121 each. Their checks will range from a flat $75 for employees with six months' to a year's service up to 14 weeks' pay for 20-year veterans. Elsewhere across the U.S., year-end fiscal cheer varies from the $10 Philadelphia Electric Co. gave its 9,300 nonexecutive workers to the average of $375 that Scio Pottery...