In fact, though, some companies expect high-paid executives to incur business-related expenses without seeking reimbursement.

His current problem: what to do about high-paid executives in the high-technology industry?

Business leaders begged Mr. Young, now a high-paid executive with an engineering firm, to run again, but he, too, said no.

Even if Congress wishes to promote basic health insurance, why should taxpayers subsidize lavish policies for high-paid executives?

The new tax law hits high-paid executives in three main ways.

Stock options are usually reserved for high-paid executives or employees of high-tech start-up companies.

But the magnitude of the tax cut for high-paid executives can be stunning.

Are these high-paid executives not buying products and services because they haven't enough money?

Usually, highly placed, high-paid executives put up with each other a bit longer, particularly if they had known each other outside the company for 20 years.

Some of those attacked were the upscale enclaves that house the high-paid Western executives who run joint ventures and other large businesses in the kingdom.