11.   Bonus payments plunged dramatically, nevertheless, and nearly every major company announced layoffs, thinning their ranks of bond traders and salesman.

12.   Bonus payments typically make up the bulk of the pay on Wall Street and employees await bonus season the same way retailers live for the Christmas shopping season.

13.   A person close to Diamond denied he was responsible for the turmoil and said he offered to resign before the bonus payments.

14.   After Keenan declared his Ranger contract void because of a late bonus payment, the Rangers appealed to the league that he was still New York property.

15.   Continental blamed the increases on higher commissions and food expenses, as well higher employee profit-sharing and bonus payments.

16.   CS First Boston lost three bond executives to rivals in the wake of bonus payments that disappointed many employees.

17.   Current retirees also will get bonus payments.

18.   ---Directors of feature films, for the first time, will receive a bonus payment when a sequel is made based on their film.

19.   Districts may then award bonus payments for teachers who have graduate degrees, work with extracurricular activities or specialize in subjects that struggle to attract teachers.

20.   Frist, for example, eliminated the practice of giving doctors an ownership stake in Columbia facilities and ended bonus payments to hospital executives for meeting financial performance targets.