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These losses are tough on all recipients, but the rank and file suffers most. Many top execs have been bailed out with supplemental grants and so-called reloads. What may be most interesting about this saga, though, is that after stock prices tumbled from 2000 to 2002 and another bull market was calving, broad-based stock-option plans began to fade. Some 8 million workers received grants in 2000; the number dropped to 3 million by last year, Kay says. The total value of grants has slipped by a third, says the NCEO...
Israel's success, however, is far from total. "Every time we cross one off [the list of wanted men], a new replacement pops up," says an officer in Nablus, wearily. For the IDF, the catch is this: because of Israel's tough tactics and the daily humiliations Palestinians must endure, anger at the occupier gets continually restoked, which makes the job of the militant ideologues that much easier...
...When was the last time you suited up and played ball? -Burke Hair, ChicagoThat's a tough one. I quit 15 years ago, after my sons began to take away my advantage of using my behind to push them away from the basket...
...Board’s objective is “the educational and personal growth of undergraduates.” Throughout its history, former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 writes in his book, Harvard has tried to mentor its students through means of tough love. “Students tend to think of [the Ad Board] as the court where they will be tried and sentenced for serious offenses,” Lewis writes in Excellence Without a Soul. “For most of its history, however, it has seen itself as Harvard?...
...team’s recent third-quarter heroics. “Definitely we make some adjustments, but having some success in the past in the third quarter was something we talked about today. It’s a lot about energy and coming out more aggressive and tough...