You know, big expensive planes, aviation fuel, executive bonuses?

Then of course, they see the dollar signs in their executive bonus they'd recieve for cutting costs so dramatically while increasing productivity.

Chrysler's contract with the United Automobile Workers union stipulates that profits must be shared with hourly workers before executive bonuses are paid.

The other big increase is an extraordinary jump in individual taxes that were not withheld from paychecks, usually a reflection of taxes on investment income and executive bonuses.

Chrysler has a policy under which executive bonuses are not paid in any year in which workers do not receive profit-sharing payments.

The report recommended, among other things, that boards reduce executive bonuses or require repayment of bonuses if there is a significant revision of a company's financial results.

Proxy campaign success wins elimination of Verizon executive golden parachutes and bloated executive bonuses in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007.

According to Merck's proxy statement, executive bonuses are determined by comparing growth in revenue and earnings per share to those of its peers in health care.

He said, however, that he was not sure what would happen to $22 million that was set aside for this year's executive bonuses.

And no one expects companies to readily give up a tool that can enhance earnings - the bottom line that determines, among other things, their executive bonuses.