The S-Model version is likely to cost significantly more, based on the price of previous performance packages.

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Improved automatic transmissions have also had a big effect in allowing for performance in larger packages.

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Across Europe, governments routinely set performance targets and compensation packages - all without much of an outcry from anyone.

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Doing so requires development of countless shapes and sizes of packages, high-performance materials, new graphic capabilities, convenience features and package formats in even shorter production cycles.

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His Compensation Committee that has approved his lavish pay packages in the face of such dismal performance.

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They continue to function based on the same old same old: Maximizing shareholder value and giving executives compensation packages with bonuses that are not strictly tied to performance remain higher priorities than hiring and paying their employees fairly at home and abroad.

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Four in ten (42 percent) are expecting a bonus based on performance, and many also enjoy perks, privileges, expense accounts, equity and stock options in their compensation packages.

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