When the team sells the company for a big sum, everyone needs to share in the wealth.
British lawmakers have suggested News Corp. paid such a big sum to Mr. Taylor in 2008 to keep quiet potential revelations of more widespread wrongdoing at the tabloid.
"It is a big sum of money in the context of a police force where I want to get more uniformed officers back on the beat - it is a stark choice that has to be made, " he said.
But I am told it will be a big enough sum for this to be a "real story" (in the not-very-helpful description of a source).
That's a big enough sum to last for many generations if well managed -- even with a prolific family.
In sum, Google made a big mistake in allowing the Google-Mozilla agreement to expire and putting the business relationship out for competitive bidding, because it now begs for public and antitrust scrutiny.
But some firms, most famously Matsushita, a big electronics manufacturer, have introduced a new scheme in which employees waive the lump sum at retirement in return for a higher salary.
With interest rates so low, it makes sense for Apple to borrow a large sum of money rather than pay a big tax bill.
January is often a big month for stock-fund inflows, in part due to lump-sum retirement-plan contributions, says David Blanchett, head of retirement research at Morningstar Investment Management, an advisory unit of Morningstar Inc.
The uncollected sum amounts to nearly 2% of annual tax collections, more than enough to fund a spate of big agencies.
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