Flexible Spending Account. Your employer may offer dependent care benefits by allowing you to use pre-tax dollars to pay for your child care expenses. This arrangement is a flexible spending account that is funded pre-tax contributions, deducted from your pay. For 2013, the maximum tax-free amount is $5,000.
golden parachute. A clause in an executive's employment contract specifying that he/she will receive large benefits in the event that the company is acquired and the executive's employment is terminated.
Using the Golden Mean allows an artist to set up logical proportional relationships in a work of art or architecture. The Parthenon uses this proportional model. The Greeks found that the ratio of 1:1.618 occurred in nature and it reflected their philosophical belief that Man, a natural form, was also an ideal form.