The pay package would also include nearly $538 million in equity and $44 million in perquisites and benefits.
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Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
17 Dec. 2025
Barber characterized the shift as a significant reversal from the cost-cutting approach that has dominated executive benefits and perquisites since the early 2000s and the 2008 financial crisis.
Joseph Beckham, a District 1 resident, said this zoning means the commission would provide the applicant permanent, high‑intensity entitlements with minimal ongoing city control.
The nation was to be purged of continual sin not indeed all of its own doing—due partly to its inheritance; and yet a sin, a negation that gave the world the right to sneer at the pretensions of this republic.
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James Folta,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
This action comedy is audacious in portraying the pretensions of show business.
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Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Jan. 2026
Johnson eventually pleaded no contest to three counts of false pretenses between $1,000 and $20,000.
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Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
She is also charged with one count of embezzlement from a vulnerable adult of between $1,000 and $20,000 and one count of false pretenses of between $1,000 and $20,000.
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