For American and European arms makers, lavish packages have become the key to closing deals.

This pace-setting and lavish package stunned United's competitors, who had, of course, been guilty of no less in their turn.

Those statements come after lawmakers recently criticized airlines for doling out what they called lavish packages to executives last year while the carriers were losing billions of dollars.

Another lavish New Year's package, this one featuring trans-Atlantic round trip flights on the Concorde, costs $5,999 a person.

The catalog included reissues of all of the previous Columbia and Warner Bros. albums, although in less lavish packages than their original editions.

In general, the biggest reductions are going to people who subscribe to the most lavish monthly packages, have more than one cable outlet in the home and rent remote-control devices.

It has finally been reissued, in a lavish package (full disclosure: I contributed a small reminiscence of Smith to the liner notes).

He noted that this "lavish package" has "a lot of material to digest, but thankfully, the quality of the writing makes it go down easy.

He felt that "A project this ambitious deserves a lavish package, and the designers deliver in spades," calling the documents, diagrams, and other player handouts "fun".

C.E.O. salaries were tiny compared with today's lavish packages.