1.   Bowing to mounting pressure over executive bonuses, DiCamillo chose not to participate in a second round of payments approved by the bankruptcy court.

2.   CMA officials counter that the industry is diverting money to stockholders, executive bonuses and unnecessary layers of management that should go to patient care.

3.   Companies might be more inclined to pay executive bonuses in actual stock, perhaps with rules that the shares could not be sold for a certain number of years.

4.   Executive bonuses.

5.   Executive bonuses rest on meeting the benchmarked goals.

6.   He notes, many executive bonus plans are tied to reported earnings.

7.   Many companies were reporting weak earnings and eliminating executive bonuses and hundreds of thousands of jobs.

8.   Most companies generally do not decide the level of executive bonuses until late in the fourth quarter, when they are able to gauge full-year financial results.

9.   Others, like Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in Boston have made executive bonuses contingent on getting more minorities and women into management.

10.   Others warned the carriers not to provide executive bonuses at a time they were laying off rank and file workers.