31.   A second employee received similar treatment, Brous said.

32.   A spokesman for SBC said employees regularly receive security briefings from personnel with the U.S. Embassy.

33.   According to Kra, some employees will receive better benefits if they wait for this ceiling to be lifted.

34.   Affected employees will receive a severance package, along with outplacement and counseling services, the company said.

35.   All current employees receive the discount, Leonard said.

36.   But attorneys who were brought into the case are still negotiating what kind of compensation the employees will receive for their time away from work.

37.   Chevron employees received a company e-mail announcing the merger when they arrived at work Monday.

38.   City employees receive higher salaries and better benefits than most other public employees in the state.

39.   Crawford said Morgan Stanley held the line without increasing the amount of restricted stock or options that employees received as part of their pay packages.

40.   Defending their offer, state officials noted that about half the unionized employees receive modest annual step increases in addition to across-the-board raises.