Separately, Diageo agrees to more than double its compensation payouts to thalidomide victims from £2.8m a year to about £6.5m.
Madrid's regional government is to double its compensation fund for farmers who lose animals to wolves after a steep increase in fatal attacks in the last year.
"We have made a very substantial and fair offer to our game officials that would double their compensation by the 2003 season," Tagliabue said in a statement.
If he could effect change, he said, "you would cut the number of teachers in half but you would double the compensation of them, and you would weed out all the bad ones and just have good teachers.
Indeed, in 2007, the chief executives of the Too Big to Fail Banks made, on average, $26 million, according to Wilmers — more than double the compensation of the top nonbank Fortune 500 executives.
The administration will also push forward with a proposal announced earlier to double the compensation for passengers who have reserved seats but are "bumped" from flights that are oversold.
Over two years, the head of the trust overseeing the hospital's construction spent an average of $1,250 a day -- double the compensation most victims received -- on administration, including his own fees.
European airlines will be forced to double the compensation for passengers bumped from flights and will face tough rules on how to treat people whose flights are delayed or canceled under a European Union law passed on Thursday.
Passengers who are involuntarily bumped, like Mrs. Sumlin, and rebooked on another flight within two hours after their original domestic flight time (or within four hours for international flights) are entitled to $400 in cash — double the compensation offered two years ago, according to Department of Transportation regulations.
"If I had the ability, which nobody does really, to just design the system and say, ex cathedra, this is what we're going to do, you would cut the number of teachers in half, but you would double the compensation of them, and you would weed out all the bad ones and just have good teachers.
So double the compensation amount.
