It is difficult to set compensation that reasonably compensates donors without making it an inducement.

After numerous failed attempts to raise legislative pay, a successful state question in 1968 created the Board of Legislative Compensation, which set legislative compensation at 8,400 that year.

Instead, it found that defendants were guilty of "bad faith" and that they failed to exercise "due care" in the process used to set compensation.

Even so, Ms. Doherty said: "It appeals to people for the 90's catchwords: own your own business; work from home; set your own hours and compensation.

He should also get behind Judge Kaye's proposal for changing the manner of setting judicial compensation.

International law offers little guidance on how to set compensation in such cases, according to Richard B. Lillich, a specialist in international claims at the University of Virginia Law School.

Mr. Dimon's doctrine did not appear to sway many people who set compensation at other companies, as few followed suit.

Those whose executives have been asked to pay penalties may have failed to use comparable figures from similar organizations in setting compensation or otherwise failed to justify executive pay levels.

The earliest and most famous example is Code of Hammurabi which set the different punishment and compensation according to the different class/group of victims and perpetrators.

The two sides also resolved the issue of players who can become free agents because they received service time from the 1994-95 strike, setting dates, times and compensation.