pay-offs

Mr Makled has been talking volubly about the pay-offs he made to Venezuelan officials and generals.

They may lose millions in shares and options if the company stumbles , but their pay-offs and pensions mean they never need work again .

By contrast to shareholders who stuck with the banks, however, the executives' total pay-offs during the period were decidedly in the black.

The result is a fascinating study of how society is shaped by hidden pay-offs and punishments.

The national academies are becoming ever more querulous and greedy, and require higher pay-offs each year.

The police are accused of receiving secret pay-offs from the drug barons.

Sustained efforts to improve credit and collateral registries offer large pay-offs.

But, he says, the eventual pay-offs promise to be large.

Lucky grants were more likely when the potential pay-offs from manipulation were relatively high.

Few executives are paid bonus incentives and even fewer are guaranteed large pay-offs in the event of corporate failure.

Since behaviour is governed by incentives, the way to achieve different outcomes is to alter the pay-offs carefully.

This should make it easier to curb the pay-offs.

If there are big pay-offs, Congress could decide to claw back the benefits.

If unpublicized pay-offs are included, some by Spain's government, the pirates probably earned around $100m last year.