1.   A good pay package and a company car were dangled in front of her.

2.   Money put into pay packages of top executives is not money spent on new capital equipment.

3.   And a shortage of executive talent in Switzerland has obliged companies to recruit elsewhere and offer globally competitive pay packages, he added.

4.   And the final pay package has yet to be worked out.

5.   And so are stock options, as part of pay packages.

6.   And when word comes of a big pay package for some newly hired executive, pressure builds to raise the pay of other corporate chieftains.

7.   At the high end, MBA pay packages are swelling not just from higher base salaries but a clutch of extras.

8.   Bassick told the story of a CEO who, informed of his pay package for the coming year, called Bassick afterward and asked what it meant.

9.   Big investors and critics grumbled about how huge pay packages had become, but their complaints carried little weight as stocks kept reaching new highs.

10.   Both he and Chisholm held unusual positions in the Murdoch empire, where high pay packages are not routine.