1.   For example, many corporations reward executives with stock options in addition to salary.

2.   And he has also promoted from within, rewarding IBM executives who are widely considered to have performed well.

3.   As a mutual company owned by policyholders, Met Life had, by definition, no publicly traded stock with which to reward executives.

4.   At the meeting, Hoffman announced a new, two-pronged incentive program that he said would reward shareholders before it rewarded top executives.

5.   Company officials say the continuing benefits help them recruit executives and are often used to reward outgoing executives for a successful tenure.

6.   Consumer activists say policyholders, who own mutual companies, are being robbed of their assets without compensation while executives are rewarded with bigger salaries and stock options.

7.   Its top executives were lavishly rewarded.

8.   Many companies use the incentive stock option plans to reward executives, though opponents of the IRS rule say they are increasingly being offered to rank-and-file workers.

9.   Stock options, which reward executives for higher share prices, became hugely popular.

10.   The judge wrote that even with his ruling, the executives were well rewarded for their efforts.