21.   Other recent departures following annual bonuses paid in the second week of March, include two senior New York executives and staff in Singapore and Indonesia, Baxter said.

22.   Originally available to all workers, the year-end annual bonus is now tied to performance, according to Sabina Puppo.

23.   Other hospital operators use annual bonuses, but Columbia is among the most aggressive.

24.   Papouis left NatWest before his annual bonus was paid.

25.   Premier executives benefit from rising revenue because their annual bonuses are based partly on that revenue.

26.   Similarly, determination of annual bonuses is done separately at the two entities.

27.   Singaporeans will receive their annual bonuses in January through March, and both Tan and See said they believe some of that money will be plowed into small stocks.

28.   The annual bonuses were financed out of a pool established as a percentage of after-tax net income, according to company filings with the SEC.

29.   The departures came after the New York-based investment banking and securities company paid annual bonuses this month.

30.   The figure includes a routine annual bonus of several thousand dollars.