But the recent trials of Martha Stewart and other executives have revealed the lavish benefits some receive.

Mr. Jenks has defended his client, Dr. Tassone, as an academic with lavish but legal benefits who was far removed from the district's business affairs.

In an industry already famed for high pay and lavish benefits, companies locked in high, hard-to-cut costs with union contracts that were the envy of the labor movement.

Patient advocates argue that HMOs can't produce the lavish benefits they used to drum up business.

Paris is paralyzed by a strike of workers determined to keep the lavish benefits of France's anachronistic welfare state.

So a plan whose lavish benefits attract the sickest mentally ill people invites bankruptcy.

With the recent rumblings about lavish benefits, the 700 formally attired guests were expected to eat the centerpieces.

Its employees take home bigger paychecks and more lavish benefits than most of the city's private employees.

Why did General Electric's board provide Mr. Welch, who retired last year as chief executive and whose net worth approaches $1 billion, with such lavish benefits?

Some workers with little education or training could earn $30,000 or more annually, in addition to lavish benefits.