Beyond risk assessment, companies outside of TARP also implemented numerous changes indicating that good governance had become synonymous with the practices the government had mandated under TARP, such as the widespread adoption of clawbacks and reductions in perquisites, tax-gross-up payments, golden parachutes and supplemental retirement plans. ❋ Rose Marie Orens (2010)
I had to use the word perquisites instead of the usual perks just because 10 dollar words drive Tenshi crazy. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Most jobs don't come with a private plane, but perks short for "perquisites"--defined as anything provided as payment in addition to a salary--can be a boon for everyone involved. ❋ Sharon Liveten | Pink (2006)
Here it was included by "the boy" among his numerous "perquisites," and, by an easy transition, soon found its way to the Hebrew gentleman above mentioned. ❋ Various (N/A)
And the fashionable madame who sent out on the streets what a lady we knew called the "perquisites" of her soirée supper has left too many well-known descendants. ❋ Unknown (1912)
He was surprised to find that among his "perquisites" were passes ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
Previous to the Reformation he received certain wages and many "perquisites" from the inhabitants of the parish for distributing the holy loaf and the holy water. ❋ Unknown (1892)
He gives John instructions about dealing with the "perquisites" or salary due him as acting govenor before Hugh Drysdale arrived, and for dealing with a small debt. ❋ Unknown (1727)
Towers Watson, a global human-resources consultant, said in a survey released Thursday that seven of 25 companies that received less than 80% support in say-on-pay votes already have altered compensation programs such as severance and perquisites. ❋ Joann S. Lublin (2011)
The party had as its base a dwindling number of trade-union activists mainly interested in their own political perquisites, and an intellectual wing that fetishized a working class whose everyday lives and views they knew next to nothing about. ❋ Bret Stephens (2010)
That amount included a nearly $2 million bonus—the highest Mr. McClendon's employment agreement allows—along with $1.3 million in other perquisites. ❋ Daniel Gilbert (2011)
After centuries of First World status—and all the perquisites of prestige and power that came with it—Europe is watching its economic status slide inexorably toward new national powers in the East and elsewhere. ❋ Daniel Henninger (2012)
He capped their cash base salaries, curbed stock options, required clawbacks on all stock awards, limited perquisites and prohibited the accrual of benefits under supplemental retirement programs. ❋ Rose Marie Orens (2010)
Mr. McClendon has made more than $152 million in cash, stock and perquisites since 2008, according to federal filings, making him one of the nation's highest-paid chief executives in any industry. ❋ Daniel Gilbert (2011)
Congress is a clubby institution and clings to its protocols, procedures and perquisites. ❋ Jamila Trindle (2011)
Term limits are often opposed by incumbents, career public servants, and people who have already been elected to public office and want to retain their positions, salaries, pension eligibility, lulus, expense accounts, staffers and other perquisites of office. ❋ Henry J. Stern (2010)
