Sentence examples for its severance from inspiring English sources

However, US Airways, which has announced plans to eliminate 11,000 jobs, said it would make good on its severance obligations.

In May, the Ford Foundation offered its severance package to employees working in areas where it had the "most excess capacity," said Marta L. Tellado, Ford's vice president for communications.

Acting Gov. Jane M. Swift, left, has asked the Massachusetts Port Authority to renegotiate its severance agreement with its departing director, calling the $175,000 deal unacceptable.

Several former employees also took the risk of speaking, despite the confidentiality provisions that CMGI regularly writes into its severance agreements; they, too, requested anonymity.

"These people are political appointees, and they've hooked into collective benefits designed for career employees," alleged a prominent lawyer.The scandal broke when a political quarrel in the national postal service brought its severance payments out into the open.

In its latest annual proxy statement, the company said that only $14 million of the payments made to Ms. Fiorina on her departure came under its severance program, amounting to just 2.5 times her base salary and bonus.

Although Mayer has in the past been hesitant to explore a sale, tech analyst Jan Dawson of Jackdaw Research said Yahoo is now clearly in selling mode, affirmed by changes it made to its employees' severance plans this month.

Cardinal Health, for its "excessive" severance benefits and a 75percentt supermajority requirement.

But what really stifles the show is its total severance of sex and passion from the outside world.

In 1973, Mr. Smith joined the board of the Musical Arts Association, which runs the orchestra and its home, Severance Hall, and was president from 1983 to 1995, when he became board chairman.

It said it had offered severance packages to all of its reporters based in Washington in its Media General News Service.