How to Use golden parachute in a Sentence
golden parachute
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None of this looks good, and the golden parachute clause smells bad.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2023
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And Moonves would depart with a golden parachute likely worth north of $180 million.
—Paul Bond, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 May 2018
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That dominance has not been a golden parachute, though.
—Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 9 May 2020
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Such golden parachutes are products of a cyclical paradox of sorts.
—Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2019
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As is so often the case among Beltway elites, Sasse will be leaving Washington by means of a golden parachute.
—Jack McCordick, The New Republic, 30 Dec. 2022
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The documentary spends a lot of time on Adam Neumann, who ended up with a $1.7 billion golden parachute.
—Fortune, 8 Apr. 2021
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More of today's news: Was adoption czar's $60K 'golden parachute' legal?
—Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 22 Feb. 2018
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The unanimous vote, for what critics call a golden parachute, would saddle taxpayers with untold future costs.
—Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2019
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Presidents didn’t always leave office with a golden parachute.
—Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2021
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For people in poor countries with few opportunities, this dangerous job can seem like a golden parachute.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 19 Feb. 2020
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And the district did indeed stop baking an offer of a golden parachute into its contracts with top administrators.
—oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2019
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His eccentricities, including a party-all-the-time, spend-spend-spend ethos, played no small role in his downfall, though a golden parachute of $1.7 billion certainly helped cushion the landing.
—Shirley Halperin, Variety, 28 July 2022
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But the impending layoffs have become a lightning rod issue because of Neumann's golden parachute included with the SoftBank bailout.
—Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN, 18 Nov. 2019
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The golden parachute accounted for more than half of the $11.3 million in total compensation five USAA insurance companies paid him last year.
—Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Mar. 2021
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This shakedown was legitimate, audacious, and meant to enrich struggling youth, not provide a golden parachute.
—Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland.com, 31 Mar. 2018
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The expansion of unemployment, initially seen as an exigent backstop, was now portrayed as a golden parachute that encouraged people not to work.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
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Executives often revise their change-in-control packages, sometimes referred to as golden parachutes, when there is takeover interest in their companies.
—Nathan Becker, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2017
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The 11% tuition increase had become a point of contention for university students angered at how trustees gifted a substantial golden parachute to outgoing President Rahmat Shoureshi.
—oregonlive.com, 13 June 2019
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Neumann had pursued unsustainable expansion plans, keeping the company afloat with capital infusions from hoodwinked investors, and he was ousted as C.E.O., albeit with a golden parachute worth more than a billion dollars.
—The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
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Additionally, Allbirds is not required to hold a stockholder advisory vote on executive compensation or previously unapproved golden parachute payments.
—David Trainer, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
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