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This term encompasses a number of factors, including the retention by councils of a higher proportion of taxes levied on local businesses, and "bonus" funds for councils that approve the construction of new homes.
And why didn't the local authorities pay bonuses according to the set targets as outlined in the directives from the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare?
Local knowledge is a bonus.
It gives her the chance to brush up on her Italian around the dinner table with her hosts, and sampling the local cuisine is a bonus – "huge portions of pasta, rice and gnocchi".
The federal government would pay a bonus to local governments that make the deal.
From the dollar bills placed in Salvation Army buckets outside of grocery stores; to the increased giving to food pantries, soup kitchens and homeless shelters; to the decision by the American League Champion Oakland Athletics to contribute each player's championship bonus to local charities.
As it turns out, many of the new parents who have taken advantage of the bonus are locals who planned to have a child anyway.
In May, the White Sox fired their director of player personnel, David Wilder, and two Dominican scouts, Víctor Mateo and Domingo Toribio, after an internal probe suggested that they had been taking five-figure kickbacks of players' signing bonuses from local talent hunters, known as buscones.
To make a project viable requires concessions from the local government, like density bonuses for including affordable units, along with a jigsaw puzzle of Federal, state and county subsidies.
In May, the Chicago White Sox fired their director of player personnel and two Dominican scouts after it was revealed that they had been taking kickbacks from players' signing bonuses from local talent hunters, known as buscones.
