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...industry has built up a good repeat business. Its core customers are a passionate bunch. "Cruising traditionally is about creating communities at sea," says Brown, "and they do extend it to land." There is ample reward for the devotion. Frequent cruisers get cabin upgrades, cocktails with the captain. "People lust after this status," says Yesawich...
...Obama will also criticize the banks for trying to derail financial-regulation reform, which passed the House last week but faces multiple battles after Christmas in the Senate. And he'll scold them for continuing to distribute high bonuses, especially when they reward excessive risk-taking. The senior bank executive at one of the banks meeting with the President Monday describes the process as a "public spanking" and says other than the public humiliation the Administration has little leverage. (See the top 10 crooked CEOs...
...glee, and i had to rock out to it," posts MrJBVanilla, whose YouTube performance of Heart's "Alone" includes a lot of TV-worthy diva hand-flicks and head-flips. Fox - surprise - has encouraged the online tributes by touting Glee sheet music and sponsoring contests that reward the best amateur MySpace karaoke singers with prizes like a lesson from the Glee vocal coach...
Nothing—if one believes that such differentials are necessary for our economic system to thrive. But do many believe that differentials need be this grotesquely large to incentivize and reward people adequately, if not richly? No; they are that large today simply because they can be that large, not because of some virtuous working of the market. This is not Adam Smith’s capitalism. Just as he decried the inevitable greed and corruption of monopoly, he would surely rail against today’s self-serving and closed systems of compensation review...
There's even a push in Congress to let employers further link lifestyles to insurance premiums. Right now companies that run their own insurance programs can reward employees with bonuses or premium reductions of up to 20% if they meet certain health guidelines. John Ensign, Republican Senator from Nevada, and Tom Carper, Democratic Senator from Delaware, co-sponsored an amendment to the current health care bill that would raise the limit to as high as 50%. The Senate Finance Committee gave it a thumbs-up in September...