11.  An important one now is the spread of stock options as a major form of compensation for corporate executives.

12.  And corporate executives no longer call attention to downsizing as healthy for profits and stock prices.

13.  And far from being rewarded for layoffs, corporate executives here are censured for them, by both peers and the press.

14.  And for now, corporate executives are pulling back.

15.  An increasing number of corporate executives are more pessimistic about the fourth quarter.

16.  Analysts say the standards board expects to have a first draft of a proposed rule completed by this summer, which bankers and corporate executives will comment on.

17.  And a corporate executive whose business fails to meet expectations in profit and productivity will soon find the lock changed on his office door.

18.  And Armey said he was still simmering over how major corporate executives donated to Democratic incumbents even though many were closer ideologically to the Republicans.

19.  And he is not the only short known for his willingness to rip publicly into corporate executives.

20.  And some lawmakers, like Rep. Martin Olav Sabo, a Minnesota Democrat, have even suggested new laws that would discourage outsized salary packages for corporate executives.