1.   Almost gleefully, he plans to spend his generous severance check on one final, suicidal binge in that glamour capital of the West, Las Vegas.

2.   Any day he should be receiving a severance check.

3.   A CNN news anchor quipped that McCurry must have already cashed that White House severance check.

4.   Grant got his final severance check in November.

5.   More often, though, workers are let go with little more than a modest severance check, if that.

6.   No severance check.

7.   Nicolas Cage is an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who pockets his severance check and heads to Vegas to drink himself to death.

8.   Oscar nominee Nicolas Cage is an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who pockets his severance check and heads to Vegas to drink himself to death.

9.   The next morning, messengers with severance checks and termination letters arrived at the homes of White and Harper.

10.   While his severance check at Disney was substantial, much of it came in the form of stock options subject to the whims of Wall Street.