The Senate is expected to take up a $989 million, three-year package soon.

He wanted a three-year package worth about $5.2 million, broken into $1.5, $1.7, and $2 million.

He had been seeking a three-year package in the range of $12 million.

He agreed to a three-year, $5 million package that also includes a club option for two more years at an additional total of $4.4 million.

Gooden said late tonight that if the deal as he understood it was made final Monday, the three-year package would be worth $16.2 million.

The average annual salary of the three-year package would be closer to the Boston figure than to his.

In 2004, he said, less than 40 percent of those companies offered the three-year packages.

Two weeks ago, Ford workers rejected a proposal for a three-year package.

The best bet, I learned, was a $549 three-year package that he would sell to me for $419.

The Jets are believed to have offered him a three-year package worth about $1.2 million; he was looking for almost $1.4 million.