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Norris' views contrast sharply with those expressed by Meyer last month. The HMC president said the move--expected to occur gradually between 1994 and 1999--could ultimately provide a financial reward to the University...
Contrary to his claims, Perot's proposal might not provide an incentive for legislators to cut the deficit. Because it would punish all members of Congress-even those who have done all in their power to reduce spending-there would be little political reward in trying...
...there often no payoff on the bottom line, but corporate chiefs who expected at least some applause from Wall Street for reducing labor costs also got a nasty shock. "Senior executives may think that a press release announcing layoffs sends a signal like, 'Look, I'm cutting costs, therefore reward me,' " says Carol Coles, president of Mitchell & Co., a management consulting firm in Waltham, Massachusetts. "But investors are a lot savvier than that. They know that firms that had major layoffs often have more significant problems. Streamlining a company does not push stock prices higher...
...addition, advocates of the UN plan are reluctant to accept a plan that does not reward Serbian-Croatian aggression and dominance. The prospect of more killing is a powerful consideration in a country that knows of war and terror. But outsiders, who are doing much less than they can to reverse Serbian and Croatian aggression, are poorly placed to tell the Muslim victims that they should learn to live with their misfortune...
...sometimes a ridiculous fate. For example, a man afflicted with the name of Kill Sin Pimple lived in Sussex, in 1609. In the spring of that year, the record shows, Kill Sin served on a jury with his Puritan neighbors, including Fly Debate Roberts, More Fruit Fowler, God Reward Smart, Be Faithful Joiner and Fight the Good Fight of Faith White. Poor men. At birth, their parents had turned them into religious bumper stickers...