21.   Some departments offer insurance and retirement plans to sweeten the pot.

22.   Some of that could easily be used to sweeten the pot for long-term care.

23.   Such securities sweeten the pot by promising annual interest, but they place a cap on how much the securities can appreciate.

24.   Still, many companies think that sweetening the pot may lower the absentee rate, or at least head off resentment.

25.   That way, the Celtics can sweeten the pot enough to make it worth his while.

26.   The Canucks scoffed at the offer then, so Phoenix will have to sweeten the pot.

27.   The Dolphins did not want him, and there were those Vikings wide receivers, Cris Carter and Randy Moss, to sweeten the pot.

28.   The horse racing lobby in Texas will sweeten the pot by pointing to a study that shows thousands of jobs can be created by the industry supporting horse racing.

29.   The negotiations continue, and you sweeten the pot by upping the stakes.

30.   The Phillies failed in efforts to sweeten the pot this summer, Williams said, because he considers himself a better football player at this stage of his career.