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...happens, the broadest distributions occurred from 1998 to 2001, a period marked by nosebleed stock valuations. The 10-year expiration on those grants is near, and the NASDAQ is still at just half its peak level, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 has barely gotten back to even. Grants made in 2000 alone represent lost value of $150 billion, with virtually no chance of recovery, says Ira Kay, an executive pay consultant at Watson Wyatt...
...consultants say companies have returned to the old days of granting options, or restricted stock, only to big shots and stars. The NCEO estimates that the number of companies with broad-based plans has dropped to 3,000, from a peak of 4,000 a few years ago. As a result, says Kay, "morale problems are stewing." He warns that line workers understand the value of options when they are granted while the market is low. "They'll see this as a pay cut," he says, and it will infuriate them when CEOs start ringing the register again...
...weekend’s games are so big that I’m trying to look at it as the exciting culmination to our season.”Last weekend’s loss to Yale marked a low point—but in an Ivy season with its peaks and valleys, the Crimson now has a chance to peak at just the right time. —Staff writer Emily W. Cunningham can be reached at ecunning@fas.harvard.edu...
...Star, was reporting that a woman named Gennifer Flowers was talking about her affair with Bill Clinton. There was no road map for surviving something like that, but the Clintons reacted boldly. They sent a young adviser named Mandy Grunwald to appear on Nightline, which was then at the peak of its influence. Host Ted Koppel was known as a master interrogator - but as soon as he opened the interview, Grunwald sprang to the attack. Why was Koppel letting "a trashy supermarket tabloid" set the agenda...
Every year hundreds of people die while living life to the fullest - battling white-water rapids, climbing the world's tallest mountain peak, descending to the depths of the ocean. These extreme sports are inherently dangerous and you take your chances. Or do you? "One of the things about these high-risk activities is that if you're going to participate in them you assume a certain kind of risk," says Prof. Lyrissa Lidsky, who teaches tort law at the University of Florida. In the case of Groh, the question is whether the tour operator failed to use reasonable care...