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...edge; 25% of its revenues come from domestic-security business. "It's well positioned to get a big piece of the homeland-security pie," says Tavares. And the pie will be big. Congress has pledged about $38 billion in 2003 for homeland security. Some of it will go to the likes of General Dynamics, Raytheon and Northrup, all of which sell security systems. But they tend to hire smaller shops like L-3 to make components, so, as Lanza puts it, "we won't be competing with the gorillas." Last year L-3 was a subcontractor for Boeing on several...
That said, top executives usually arrange to be paid in the most rewarding fashion, and stock options are a declining slice of their pay pie. On the rise are annual cash bonuses, restricted stock (shares that vest over time) and long-term cash and stock incentives (based on performance over three to five years). Such goodies will trickle down to a broader set of employees eventually, as stock options did in the '90s. But from vice president on up, you may get them now if you ask. When options are counted against earnings, their cost to the company typically runs...
...belligerent response, however, indicated that North Korea is not interested in retreating from the brinkmanship that has led it to kick out international nuclear inspectors and withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Bush's "loudmouthed supply of energy and food aid are like pie in the sky, as they are possible only after [North Korea] is totally disarmed." Meanwhile, diplomats shuttled around the region trying to find a way to get talks going. The U.N., Russia and Australia sent envoys to Pyongyang, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly met officials in Seoul...
...aggressive specimen of free-market Republicanism and a stirring tribute to the twin ghosts of Keynes and Reaganomics. Deficits? If they even matter (which die-hards still won't admit), just tell Congress to spend a little less, if you're so worried, and private-sector growth - the increasing pie - will take care of the rest. Skewed to the rich? Well, they pay the most taxes anyway. At least it wasn't big corporations...
...like a barber's towel," where a meticulous local looks like a man "who spent his formative years in a trouser press" and where a cagey old woman brushes off Dollar's suspicious flatteries with "I have discovered that young men's blandishments are simply too much pie...