Donahue's pay included a special $2,250,000 award, which the company variously described as being "for work performed in connection with our merger" or as a "retention payment" determined "prior to our merger". Emanuel J. Friedman and Eric F. Billings of Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group Inc., who tied for first in total cash in 2004 with $9.8 million each, plummeted in 2005.
U.S. stocks started the day in the red following the carnage in international markets, with major stock averages each plummeting over 3% during the session.
And that's the case here: As Paul, he pulls us into his tiny cell of desperation and forces us to feel each painful breath of dwindling oxygen, each adrenalized jolt of fear, each plummet into despair.
The roll of names reads like the answer key to a pub quiz – Lee Mackey Jr, Bob Gadja, Mike Nicolette, Olin Browne, Justin Hicks – improbable opening-round leaders all, each of whom plummeted back into relative anonymity.
Even so, as cellphone service has grown from a toy for the elite into a necessity for the masses, the amount of revenue to be had from each subscriber has plummeted from $61 a month in 1998 to only $17 a month now, according to Leslie Arathoon of Pyramid Research.
Over the course of the year since I've had my MacBook the battery life has plummeted each month regardless of whether or not I calibrate the battery.
The number of children under five who die each year has plummeted from 12 million in 1990, to 7.6 million last year, the UN says.
In that same time, the number of children who die each year has plummeted more than 40percentt.
A recent poll that measures Americans' "social trust" -- the lifeblood of community well-being -- showed our trust in each other has plummeted.
In the midst of the confusion and uncertainty that characterizes current US-Egypt relations and with American and Egyptian attitudes toward each other having plummeted to all-time lows, I recently had the opportunity to participate in a "little" gem of a project that shows a way forward.
The depth of water is about twelve inches, more when the spring storms come racing at low level over the fields and leap into the trees so nests capsize and there is the crack of old branches and then silence before each plummets in their fall.
