Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their meals, plus a round-trip jet charter flight. It cost them just $250 each. The Victoria Sporting Club picked up the rest of the tab. As with the three other Victoria-sponsored junkets this summer, that came to around $60,000, but the Americans have evidently been generous losers. "So far," purrs one official, "we have managed to come out ahead...
Because of its stability, security and superior buying power, the dollar is eagerly sought by foreigners. Last week the Federal Reserve's Martin called "a fact of financial life" the habit foreign nations have of supporting their faltering currencies with dollars. Shopkeepers in many parts of the world give generous discounts to tourists who pay in dollars. Millionaires in Latin America and other developing areas convert their own currencies into dollars?paying a high premium for the privilege?and often deposit the dollars in U.S. banks...
...step backward," snapped U.S.W. President I. W. Abel, 57. Reminding steelmen that the union had meekly accepted "modest" settlements in 1962 and 1963, and that generous contracts were being signed in other industries "almost daily," Abel refused to scale down his demands. One of Abel's major goals was to win retirement on full pension after 30 years of work, reflecting a nationwide trend among unions to emphasize such fringe benefits as earlier retirement and longer vacations-mostly designed to soften the blow of automation by spreading the work thinner. That was the idea behind the U.S.W...
...world unto itself, a "monastic and monolithic world," in the words of one top labor arbitrator. All its members work at essentially the same job, tend to share the same interests, see each other socially. The union provides almost cradle-to-grave security: a training center, a retirement home, generous pensions, burial expenses...
...prices ranging from $7,000 to $26,000, then leased the cars to oil companies and skimmed off 20% of the revenue as a management fee. Today Algeco owns more than 8,000 tank cars that haul everything from crude oil to liquid gas all over Europe. Thanks to generous depreciation write-offs and almost constant use of the cars, the investors who own individual railroad cars earn 10% to 12% annually on their money...