U.S. automakers are close to handing out record profit-sharing checks, bringing new meaning to the term "bonus baby" for Ford Motor Co. hourly worker Nino Pace.When Pace arrived home from work one evening, his wife had spelled out "baby" in wooden blocks, decorated with sparkles, on the kitchen table.
Pace took the "not-so-subtle hint" and intends to sock away half of his $8,300 profit-sharing check from Ford for the baby he and his wife of 14 months now are planning, he said.
With the other half, the production worker at Ford's axle plant in Sterling Heights, Mich., intends to take his wife on one last, child-free vacation.
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