11. To acquire Avanti, Synopsys paid about $ 55 million in golden handshake payments to these same executives. 12. "Then they get to be 54, and they're given the golden handshake _ with no gold ." 13. A second concern is that the shareholder vote may have turned the company's golden handcuffs into a golden handshake . 14. Some say she ran down the franchise and now is going to get a golden handshake in St . Louis. 15. You will get a golden handshake , retire early and never have to snipe your way through another committee meeting again. 16. AN exercise to lay off workers accompanied by a golden handshake seems to be a buzzword in today's labour market. 17. The Portman chief executive Robert Sharpe received a golden handshake of ?.7m and a pension worth ?52, 000 per year. 18. Rahim said . " When I lost my job they called it a golden handshake , but I didn't get any money. 19. But in Sprint's case, the provision may have had the opposite effect, turning the company's golden handcuffs into a golden handshake . 20. In the press however it was suggested that Groenink received the ?23 million as golden handshake or " quitting bonus ".