Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the Table. Instead of paternalistic emoluments, Italian executives often collect under-the-table cash bonuses, which the company camouflages on its books as "miscellaneous expenses." Payments to top managers run as high as $20,000 a year. Small private firms rely on generous automobile allowances...
Such fringes are most generous in West Germany, where companies lavish benefits on the lowliest employees as well as on the highest executives. A manufacturer passes out free opera tickets. Brewery hands carry home two to four liters of beer every day; slaughterhouse workers are entitled to half a side of pork each month. Employees of the Reemtsma cigarette company get 30 free packs of cigarettes a month-which they often sell...
...point, the harp seals of maritime Canada live fortuitous lives. The gray-tan harp-so called because of a harp-shaped black blotch on its back-cannot swim at birth and dies if whelped into the frigid ocean off Labrador. By a generous natural coincidence, however, whelping occurs just as spring thaws begin to break up the winter ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Taking advantage of the breakup, pregnant cows among the 800,000 harps make their way south. Swimming down the Labrador coast and through the Strait of Belle Isle, they enter the broad Gulf...
Question of Confidence. De Gaulle had to settle for a standoff. Now he must somehow achieve a labor settlement that will be noninflationary, yet generous enough to head off upheavals by workers. The government, aware that any wage boosts of more than 6% a year would greatly aggravate inflation and almost certainly force the franc's devaluation, has offered workers in nationalized industries only 4%. The unions are holding out for 10% or more. De Gaulle's immediate problem is that he will either have to accept devaluation or pursue the kind of restrictive policies that could bring...
Cooper would scrupulously deny that he sees an intellectual message in the play, however. He has given it a generous amount of spectacle, as well as some modern touches. And for the past week, the frenzy has been slowly mounting--as opening night grows closer, as more and more scenes have to be reworked (on Sunday, Cooper and two of his actors rewrote the entire first scene), as the costumes, lighting, music, and set all have to be pieced together with the acting...