Lucky duckies
Washington Monthly, Nov, 2003 by Charles Peters
The District of Columbia government has an Incentive Awards Committee that determines cash bonuses to city employees. Three percent of the employees get the bonus. Guess the percentage of committee members who get it? Fifty.
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