However, that the bonus system suffers this critique seems largely the result of awkward semantics.
FORBES: Bankers' bonuses: dubious use more than dubious ethics
Previously, the attraction at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein was a skewed bonus system that rewarded deal revenue rather than the actual return to shareholders.
However, this does not mean that the flexible pay system that banks have grown to use (i.e. their bonus system) is a smart way of rewarding people.
FORBES: Bankers' bonuses: dubious use more than dubious ethics
Lord Myners said the government view was that bonuses were "ultimately" up to shareholders provided the bank was "adequately capitalised" and the bonus system "does not contribute to unmanageable risk".
But the original tribunal backed Investec's view that it was entirely within its rights to pay Mike Savage and Mathew Horsmann a higher base salary and a bigger bonus, saying it could not rule on the City's notoriously secretive bonus system.
As a bonus, the system alerts riders when the next train is due.
Those that have done well get bonus points on the reputation system and are more likely to get plum jobs.
"Poaching has too often resulted in irrational bonus bidding wars that harm the entire industry by forcing firms to continually increase bonus levels and leading to a compensation system that is simply a one-way ratchet up, " the report says.
But the new system offers the Blair government one significant bonus a chance to purge the European party of old Labour dissidents.
An optical digital cable is a nice bonus if the PS3 owner has his or her system connected to a home theater and wants to take full advantage of its HD surround sound capabilities.
In 2000, the commissioner's office recommended a slotting system for the owners to follow, which set limits on the bonus of a top-five pick.
The system will allow them to market their ratings and next year get bonus payments from the federal government ranging from 3 to 5 percentage points.
Looks like Palm's webOS Reset Doctor, intended for resetting Pre smartphones with a mangled system, has been outed to the public at large along with a very special bonus for hackers and other programming enthusiasts: a complete 195MB root image of webOS itself.
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To stop this sort of thing happening again Vaios Lappas of the University of Surrey, in England, has designed a system that will remove satellites from orbit at the end of their useful lives and as a bonus will scour part of the sky clean as it does so.
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