Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FLAT TAX WERE A PERSON, it would be a little like Steve Forbes: straightforward and artless on the outside, more complex on closer examination. The political appeal of Forbes' flat tax--a single, 17% rate on all income above a generous personal exemption, and no deductions--lies in its apparent simplicity and its promise to close loopholes for the wealthy and well connected. The proposal has economic appeal as well: a simpler tax code could boost middle Americans' stagnant incomes, in part by freeing much of the $80 billion-plus that individuals and businesses now spend each year...
Yale said its "objective in bargaining has been to contain the growing costs of its generous benefits programs, to improve management flexibility to provide better services at more competitive costs...
Maybe not, but Lindner has long been a generous political bankroller. He and his companies lavished $1.3 million on G.O.P. committees from 1988 through 1994, while putting $625,000 in Democratic coffers. Lindner's holding company, American Financial Group, gave an additional $140,000 to the Republicans in the first half of 1995, and handed $40,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee last October, just as Dole was pushing Chiquita's interests in Congress. Lindner also contributed $100,000 to Dole's now defunct Better America Foundation, which helped launch his presidential...
...million, plus assorted other payments, and guaranteed him and his wife health care for the rest of their lives. The agreement also called for Health Systems International to buy back as much as half of his common stock, which brought him another $13.3 million. And Greaves signed a generous three-year consulting deal. All told, his exit brought him $18.1 million, equivalent to the average monthly premiums paid by nearly 134,000 subscribers...
...being let go, 7,400 are managers who accepted a company offer of voluntary separation with generous benefits. An additional 4,000 are in operations that AT&T plans to sell, principally some computer-networking operations, and may go with the companies. That, however, leaves about 30,000 people who could be fired outright. They too will be given generous severance. According to AT&T, a typical clerical employee in New Jersey--44 years old, 18 years of service, making $644 a week--would receive more than...