41.   After paying severance packages and higher commissions, Allstate says the move is actually costing the company money.

42.   All fired employees are expected to be offered severance packages, the company said.

43.   All employees, even those who are moving to Houston, will receive generous severance packages.

44.   All workers received severance packages, including pay and benefits that covered them at least to the end of this month.

45.   Both Coca-Cola and Amazon.com offered enhanced severance packages to workers who agreed to sign away their right to sue.

46.   But dozens of employees got the word Thursday, and were sent to meetings at the Wingate Hotel in Round Rock to get information about their severance packages.

47.   But it promised a generous severance package.

48.   But one company official said he thought it unlikely that there would be another large severance package for Catacosinos.

49.   But the company coupled the bad news with a generous severance package that includes extended benefits and even cash rewards for employees who find other work.

50.   But the generous severance packages will make this less likely, especially in the ranks of managers who will suffer the greatest cuts.