That flexibility is part of the severance deal.

The conga line of executives who have been booted from the Garden go with a severance deal in tow and their credibility intact.

The Mayor is now preparing to negotiate a new round of severance deals.

Shareholder rights advocates and news media accounts often questioned Ms. Barad's $37 million severance deal, for example.

The federal law is supposed to help workers deal with layoffs by giving them time to find new jobs or negotiate sweeter severance deals, they said, not intimidate them.

Tyco's directors will negotiate a new severance deal with him.

He is also opposed to extravagant salaries and severance deals of corporate CEOs.

As part of their severance deal, The Stranglers were forced to release a greatest hits collection, The Collection 1977-1982.

The company has given him a generous severance deal - he would not give details - which has staved off "utter panic," he said.

That severance deal has prompted shareholders, in the name of the company, to file at least two separate lawsuits against Grace's board.