Railroads promised substantial bounties if they were subsidized, but left taxpayers holding the bill.
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The San Diego Padres, Detroit Tigers and Arizona Diamondbacks are lining up for similar bounties.
There are advantages for organizations to set up financial bounties in efforts to encourage internal whistle-blowing.
Sadly, there are too many lionfish about, and the bounties have proved too expensive to sustain.
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No need to be a purist about the bounties of DVD, which aren't confined to feature films.
Bounties have long been outlawed by the NFL, and the teams are warned every season against them.
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And, who knows, the government could stimulate private initiatives by offering generous bounties for successful, nongovernmental exploratory missions.
And in an interview, ESPN analyst Damien Woody, a former offensive lineman, also said the bounties were widespread.
While several other companies including Mozilla, PayPal and Facebook offer bug bounties, none publicly offers such a high sum.
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On some level, there is a semantic argument when you start talking bounties.
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Private companies would be paid bounties out of the fund for successfully removing debris according to the debris-creation-avoidance value assigned to each object.
There is another way in which the tax code is responsible for allowing private-equity types to walk off with vast bounties.
The whistleblower program mandates that the SEC must pay individuals bounties if they come forward to report violations of federal securities laws.
We also receive bounties for referrals to subscriptions and generate ecomm revenue.
Comparatively speaking, financial bounties in fraud cases, specifically securities and accounting cases, within the private sector are a relatively new concept to encourage whistle-blowing.
While this is positive, it seems the NFL is going to have to consider eliminating bounties and illegal hits to the head, says Costas.
The Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reforms passed in the summer of 2010 empower the SEC to pay bounties for tips submitted by corporate whistleblowers.
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The NFL was forced to hit the Saints hard to discourage any other team from allowing a system of player bounties to go unchecked.
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The NFL, under siege on the issue of player safety, announced new penalties in its investigation of performance bounties and the New Orleans Saints.
The continent is rich in natural resources, which to some degree may have been its undoing, save for the bounties of a few settler families.
Hargrove allegedly participated in the bounties and eventually acknowledged their existence to the league, but only after initially being untruthful to investigators, the league said.
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Providing financial bounties to encourage whistle-blowers is not a new idea.
Small wonder he was motivated to gamble: a quick cost-benefit calculation would have told him the chances of detection were slight compared with the bounties available.
Those incentives came in a variety of forms, from directly helping companies defray the cost of building plants or acquiring land, to cash bounties for each new job created.
What historians call "political" entrepreneurs--those who received the bounties and the grants--built lines that were shoddy and more expensive than those laid by "commercial" entrepreneurs, who received no federal aid.
Security researchers have long criticized Microsoft for refusing to pay bounties for bugs they find in its software, a practice adopted by Google, Facebook and other tech firms.
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Paul Atkins, former SEC Commissioner, lawyer, and consultant to financial services firms now with his firm Patomak Partners, sees a big problem with the huge bounties the SEC can offer.
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In football, the New Orleans Saints will not soon recover from the penalties and suspensions imposed by the NFL for the team's outrageous system of bounties for disabling opposing players.
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Recently the NFL has been investigating allegations that some on the New Orleans Saints were paid bounties for inflicting injuries on opposing players during the course of a game.
Russia--known for its pack of lavish spenders whose bounties are intimately connected to equity markets as well as demand for oil and gas--saw a decline of 26.5% to 97, 000 HNWIs.
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