parachute
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Filings made to the Securities and Exchange Commission late Monday laid out the details of the eye-popping compensation packages — known on Wall Street as “golden parachutes” — that Warner Bros.’
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Officially serving as British special-operations troops, they parachuted behind enemy lines and tried to disrupt the Nazi death machine.
A group of Jewish volunteers parachuted into occupied Europe with the goal of saving their co-religionists and fighting the Nazis.
Some $335 million would only kick in if the other payments trigger a 20% federal excise tax on “golden parachute” severance payments he receives.
Some of the hit would be cushioned by what the Premier League calls “parachute payments.”
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