What's the difference between bonus and conus?

Bonus


Definition:

  • (n.) A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter.
  • (n.) An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.
  • (n.) Money paid in addition to a stated compensation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Treasury said: "Britain has been at the forefront of global reforms to make banking more responsible, including big reductions in upfront cash bonuses and linking rewards to long-term success.
  • (2) It takes more than a statistical read out and the return of big bank bonuses for a real recovery," he said.
  • (3) But it has already attracted attention for paying some deferred bonuses early in the US to avoid a hike in tax rates.
  • (4) And he failed to engage with these sensible proposals to limit bonuses to a maximum of a year's salary or double that if explicitly backed by shareholders - proposals which even his own MEPs have backed – until the very last minute.
  • (5) Lord Mandelson told bankers today that the one-off tax that will be imposed on their bonuses in today's pre-budget report was not designed to "teach them a lesson".
  • (6) If a bank does not meet the commitment, its chief executive and senior managers responsible for business lending will not receive the maximum pay and bonus as a result."
  • (7) The commission heard that the bonus culture had grown from the 1980s and that professionalism had been lost from the industry.
  • (8) An added bonus: With acceptance comes team building.
  • (9) It is the bonus culture – not high pay, recklessness or incompetence – that has polluted banking's public image.
  • (10) Excellent question -- is the absence of a bonus for M&S's 80,000+ staff a "failure of leadership"?
  • (11) In 2007, his £450,000 LTIP, combined with basic salary and bonus, left him £1.2m better off - and with nearly double the then salary of the BBC's director general, Mark Thompson.
  • (12) Until the October 2008 banking crisis there were no restrictions on the way bankers were paid, but rules were devised to try to link payouts to performance when it emerged that banks would still pay bonuses despite receiving taxpayer bailouts.
  • (13) The key point is that the G20 principles do not place any cap on the size of bonuses.
  • (14) Belinda Lester, from the employment law firm CKFT, agreed: "If they have a bad year, it's very difficult to cut back salaries"; the second big plus from the bank's point of view is "if a significant part of your remuneration is a bonus, these contracts will make it very clear that bonus is only payable if you're not leaving.
  • (15) The staff bonus pool at J Sainsbury has fallen by a quarter, despite the supermarket chain posting higher sales and profits for the last financial year.
  • (16) The chief executive has already waived his bonus for 2012 following the furore surrounding the £1m he was to be handed for 2011 before the political outcry forced him to hand it back.
  • (17) Just a few days before its annual results, the bank is ready to tell staff how much they will be getting and outline new payments to top staff who will be affected by the EU's bonus cap.
  • (18) Griffith earned £1.05m, including a bonus of £548,500, worth 113% of his salary and just short of the 125% maximum.
  • (19) HSBC and Standard Chartered, two UK-based banks who often manage to avoid the bonus spotlight, will also feel the heat after paying out millions to US regulators for breaches of the rules.
  • (20) Yet bank bonuses soared in April as payments were delayed so the highest paid could benefit from this government's top rate tax cut.

Conus


Definition:

  • (n.) A cone.
  • (n.) A Linnean genus of mollusks having a conical shell. See Cone, n., 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The conus was found to contribute little to forward flow under ordinary circumstances, but its contribution increased greatly during bleeding or partial occlusion of the truncus.
  • (2) omega-Conotoxin GVIA is a peptide purified from the venom of the marine snail, Conus geographus, that specifically blocks voltage-sensitive calcium channels in neurons.
  • (3) (7) Histologically, in the chick, the wall of the truncus and the conus contain cardiac muscle as late as stage 28, but from then on the walls of the truncus are transformed into connective tissue and plain muscle.
  • (4) The atherosclerotic involvement of coronary branch vessels (first diagonal, first septal, posterior descending, left and right marginals, conus and the vessels supplying the conduction system) was investigated in 450 apparently healthy subjects aged 11-55 years who died of accidental causes.
  • (5) From 1977 to the present, we have managed 30 patients with spina bifida occulta associated with a low-placed conus medullaris.
  • (6) We found a low state of the conus through adhesions caused by scars which could be removed operatively.
  • (7) High urethral sphincter pressures and somatic activity of the conus medullaris reflexes show that external urethral and anal sphincters escape spinal shock, the primary characteristic of which is areflexia.
  • (8) A variety of lesions of ectodermal, mesodermal, (rarely) endodermal, or mixed-cell layer origin involve the region of the conus medullaris.
  • (9) Myelography suggested presence of a tumour of the conus medullaris or epidural tumour in this area, at the Th12--L1 level.
  • (10) Four were in the cauda equina region, 2 were intramedullary, one was in the subdural space in the thoracic region, one was intramedullary and extended into the conus and cauda equina.
  • (11) An enlarged low conus was seen in symptomatic patients more commonly than in those without this syndrome.
  • (12) The effects of geographutoxin II (GTX II), a novel polypeptide toxin isolated from the marine snail Conus geographus, on nerves and muscles were studied by current clamp and voltage clamp techniques.
  • (13) At operation three types of lesions were present: a tethered cord, an intradural lipoma of the cauda equina and conus medullaris and an intramedullary mature teratoma.
  • (14) Examples taken from the author's laboratory demonstrate the need for reference points in the description of heart morphogenesis and speak against the existence of conus resorption.
  • (15) The conus medullaris and cauda equina were freed from the surrounding tissue.
  • (16) In one patient the proximal portion of the A-V conduction system was delineated on the anterior aspect of the pulmonary conus.
  • (17) In regard to clinical value, the results demonstrate that in patients with lesions of the central nervous system (in the group with cauda equina and conus medullaris lesions, and in the group with suprasacral spinal cord lesions) the results of cortical evoked potentials of the vesicourethral junction and pudendal somatosensory evoked potentials widely correlate due to similar afferent nervous pathways within the central nervous system.
  • (18) Evoked potentials from unilateral stimulation of the posterior tibial nerve at the knee were recorded over the spinous processes S1, L4, L2, T12 and from the 'lower extremity' portion of the sensory cortex (Cz) in 29 patients who exhibited clinical and electromyographic signs of conus medullaris or cauda equina lesions.
  • (19) The malignant tissue had infiltrated the right cerebellar hemisphere and produced a symptomatic trigeminal neuralgia, a change in the psychological state of the patient, and an acute conus and cauda syndrome following metastasis implantation.
  • (20) The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of periphero-conus neuropathy in diabetic impotence.

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