Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Depending on how much steel the workers produce, they are paid bonuses as large as 200% of their base salaries. Says Iverson: "People think that because we're in the South and are nonunion, our workers make less, but we reward high productivity." He contends that in 1981 the average blue-collar worker at Nucor made $30,000, in contrast to $28,500 at the large steel companies. But that Nucor worker, Iverson maintains, churned out about 850 tons of steel during the year, while employees at the big firms averaged only 350 tons...
...Goya prints owned by Jaime de Mora y Aragon, brother of Queen Fabiola of Belgium. De Mora's first estimate of his losses: $640,000. "I am ruined," said Felici Cultrera, an Italian who lost $250,000 in jewels and who was quick to offer a $100,000 reward...
...witness his dexterity in wielding the various personalities. The energy he put into this performance and the resulting masterpiece drown out all accusations of high salaries for temperamental superstars. Because in this case this superstar's performance is so priceless that perhaps only an Oscar can be the final reward...
...important to remember that E.T. is also a movie, crafted as expertly as if it had come off the NASA assembly line. Every character has his own quirky resonance; each scene is energized by grace notes that reward all those subsequent viewings. But Spielberg had proved his directorial skill before ? with Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark ?while tapping the moviegoer's sense of fear and excitement. This time, though, he touched something more than a nerve ending. With E.T. he proved that the everyday could be unique, and that the science...
...post of Soviet President. Brezhnev took advantage of the undemanding job to travel widely outside the U.S.S.R. as a spokesman for Khrushchev's foreign policy. In 1964 he was a member of the conspiracy against his former mentor that forced Khrushchev into retirement. Brezhnev's reward: the high-ranking post of First Secretary of the Communist Party. In 1966 Brezhnev assumed the grander title of General Secretary that had been adopted by Stalin...