Word: optioning
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...audience, consisting of the truest of true believers--Cisco employees--is an easy sell. Chambers and Cisco have made at least 2,500 of Cisco's 23,000 employees stock-option millionaires, which in turn has convinced the rest that they too will be millionaires. Investors have also got Cisco's brand of router religion, as the stock has split eight times and risen about 8,000% in the 10 years since it went public at $18 a share. One share of Cisco bought in 1990 is worth $14,000 today. The company, founded by John Morgridge as a technology...
...Falling On Cedars is many things: an ambitious if slightly uneven visual fantasy, a murder mystery, a love story. But most of all, it is a parable about forgiveness, about the fact that injustices will spiral endlessly through the centuries until someone decides that retribution is not a viable option. And as we wonder whether or not Ishmael will decide to end the injustice by foregoing his revenge against Hatsue, we must ask ourselves if we can have the strength to forego revenge against those who have wronged us--lest it lead us to wrong others...
...embodied by the fine stage actor Alan Cumming, simply seeks to protect his authority and to be loved. Tamora's two younger sons (Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Matthew Rhys) are simply bored and callous, devoted to violence and provocation out of sheer idiocy and for want of a better option...
...Judge Rodriguez has ordered a full hearing on March 6, to which Elian's father would be invited to travel from Cuba. But Juan Gonzalez and the Cuban government have, until now, rejected the option of his traveling to Miami for a family court hearing, charging that Florida's courts are open to influence from the powerful anti-Castro exile lobby. Although it's still legally possible for Washington to stick by its decision to send the boy home by Friday - legal experts suggest the case falls outside of the Florida family court's jurisdiction - the option may have become...
...Another option open to the task force was to scale back HIID's operations but keep it centralized. Pagett said he would have preferred this plan, which would also have made HIID an "allied institution" like the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study...