Word: perk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arriving at Atari's headquarters in a two-tone Rolls-Royce. As industry experts saw it, he intended to dismantle Atari, regarding it as a start-up operation. He pushed aside Chairman James Morgan, 42, the former Philip Morris executive whom Warner had brought in last September to perk up the company. Mor gan had tried to save Atari, chiefly by slashing its worldwide work force from...
...that bans any supplement to the salaries of Government employees from private sources, but payment of consulting fees raised no such problem. Other sources argue that reimbursement of moving expenses was legal, but the resources of the funds could have been strained if many other officials demanded the same perk...
Providence Mayor Vincent ("Buddy") Cianci Jr.'s most prized political perk was a Lincoln Continental with maroon seats and license plates with the number 10000. Last week the sleek sedan shared space next to city hall with a moving van. After nearly ten years in office, during which he was praised for revitalizing the city and tainted by the corruption that surrounded him, the effervescent mayor was forced to resign because of a felony conviction: he received a suspended five-year prison sentence for assaulting a man he claimed was having an affair with his estranged wife...
...currently fallen from the top five salary list for the first time since the 1976-1977 school year, he continues to enjoy the most significant perquisites of any Harvard administrator a University owned house and limousine University officials unanimously play down the significance of Bok's rarely used automotive perk. Scott calls it an "inexpensive taxi" and in fact, Bok is known for driving to work in a well worn Volkswagen...
...high as $1.2 million. They come complete with spectacular views, small kitchens (who cooks?), marble baths with Jacuzzi whirlpools and a roof garden for parties. Owner Harold Lynn, 45, a onetime Seventh Avenue clothing importer, admits that the Rolls come-on amounts to a $110,000 discount to perk up sales (twelve of his 21 units are unsold...