21.   Besides a strong economy, competition for employees in the Kansas City area has been revved up by attractive benefit packages offered by casinos.

22.   Bettman, who bargains with a mean edge, has unilaterally slashed the benefits package, an intimidation tactic as subtle as a Joe Kocur fist to the nose.

23.   Besides the sales-tax forgiveness, the benefits package includes partial real-estate tax abatements and discounts on energy costs.

24.   A company may publish a slick handbook that outlines family-friendly policies and a generous benefits package, for example.

25.   A full benefits package plus healthy meal allowance.

26.   A patient would buy into the system, with the price of the premium based on the choice of benefit packages.

27.   A. Clinton makes an important start by bringing drug coverage into the Medicare benefit package.

28.   A small but growing number of companies are designing cafeteria-style benefits packages that can be used in different ways by different employees, depending on their particular needs.

29.   Abortion-rights proponents said Tuesday that the killings at a Pensacola clinic underscored the necessity for making abortion part of a basic benefits package.

30.   All three companies offered vastly different benefit packages.