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...option increases from $10 to $20, or 100% before taxes.) And shares cost more for the company to issue, so companies won't hand out as many. In essence, employees will be giving up a risky bet on a lot of money in exchange for a safer bet on somewhat less money. It is an appropriate trade-off for a more sober financial...
...they sink a trillion dollars into U.S. banks, he sees only potential blackmail and warns of dire consequences if the money is ever withdrawn. Or when the Saudis help the U.S. by keeping a lid on oil prices, he labels the assistance nothing more than blood money. Baer argues, somewhat implausibly, that the monarchy's demise is imminent. In that event, he suggests--even more implausibly--that the U.S. seriously con-sider a military takeover of the oil fields...
...chest, including secret signals, micro-recorders, coded transmissions and even a violent and extended mission into the bush. This could have the effect of cleaving the novel into two incompatible halves - a portrait of a marriage and a political thriller - but Rush merges the two successfully and somewhat shockingly, when the doctor who is the target of Ray's surveillance becomes Iris' psychiatrist, neatly short-circuiting Ray's heretofore hermetically separate identities and violently abolishing his certainty in every truth he ever relied on. In all his identities Ray is an obsessive interpreter: he relentlessly decodes everything he sees...
...this conflict, the office of the Defense Secretary sought to soften the blow. Secretary Rumsfeld's Chief of Staff, Larry Di Rita, insisted on Tuesday that the September return date was still on the cards for the 3ID, but in contrast to Blount's email, Di Rita was somewhat evasive: "Gen. Blount is - as we all are, concerned about being able to give some definition to what the families know," Di Rita told the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes. "Because plans are still being worked out, I think he is trying to keep everybody understanding that when we say that...
...likes Mazda RX-7 sports cars, enjoys dog soup on Sundays and "every special dog-eating summer day" and thinks his second son, Kim Jong Chol, is "like a girl." The book claims Kim forces officials to attend nonstop banquets that last up to four days, a duty eased somewhat by the occasional presence of the "Group for Pleasure," young female dancers whom Kim often forces to strip. Other books in the Kim bibliography...