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...concept takes some commonplace piety of polite society and gives it a wedgie. Companies value team spirit; Survivor says the team will screw you in the end. The cult of self-esteem says everybody is talented; American Idol's Simon Cowell says to sit down and shut your pie hole. Romance and feminism say a man's money shouldn't matter; Joe Millionaire wagers $50 million that they're wrong...
...Bhatta, and he obtained my trekking permit, hired a porter and arranged transport to the trailhead, which took six hours to reach. Once on the trail, I could hike at my own pace and choose where I wanted to sleep, which was usually the place with the best apple pie. The Annapurna circuit's nickname, in fact, is the "Apple Pie Trail," in homage to the local specialty and the easy trek...
...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...