Nearly two-thirds of all physicians now have annual incentive plans, according to the Hay Group, a Philadelphia-based management consultancy that surveyed 182 health care groups.

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Citi said the performance share units (PSUs) will now account for a portion of annual incentive compensation, in an effort to strengthen the existing links between pay and performance.

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And as a final incentive, Annual Pass members will also get exclusive access to the new Mists of Pandaria expansion beta before anyone else can explore this new world.

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Huntington missed its goals for both annual and long-term incentive awards, so Mr. Hoaglin didn't get those.

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Morgan Stanley, for instance, sponsors a fund of funds, Liquid Markets Fund I, that puts investors' money into an assortment of hedge funds that each impose one-way incentive fees (plus annual management fees).

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Before incentive fees (and not counting the annual fee), you are breaking even.

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But teachers' unions have been hostile to the changes proposed by the government, arguing that the expectation of an annual increment, in place since the 1920s, provided an incentive to recruit graduates into teaching.

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But developing countries have no incentive to stop cutting down their forests, and tropical deforestation accounts for around 20% of total annual greenhouse-gas emissions.

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