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...corporate expense, even though by granting them companies dilute the holdings of existing shareholders--a real cost. Experts such as Warren Buffett and Alan Greenspan have argued that all publicly traded companies should count stock options as an expense. Yet today among big companies only Boeing and Winn-Dixie do so. Why? The current system is so lucrative for company executives, who reap the lion's share of stock options, that few will make the change unless forced. This was not a big deal a few years ago. But this "free money" led to gigantic options grants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Greed: 8 Remedies | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...after trying to fake your way through the tests--your soul. First there's the pre-employment drug test, now routine at more than 80% of large companies--and not just for the person who will be piloting the executive jet or loading plutonium rods into the reactor. Winn-Dixie tests the people who stack Triscuit boxes; Wal-Mart tests its people greeters. What a preference for weed over Bud as a Saturday-night relaxation aid says about your work habits has never been established, but this in no way dulls management's eagerness to pry into your personal recreational...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Are They Probing For? | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...progress is being made. How? By shifting the clerical work to us. At supermarkets such as Kroger and Winn-Dixie, self-service checkouts, replete with weight and bar-code recognition software, are being added; other stores are giving shoppers a handheld scanning device to tot things up as they cruise the aisles. United Airlines is installing 800 self-service check-in kiosks at 25 airports initially. Other airlines, such as Continental and Northwest, are already using such kiosks, which particularly suit those who are not checking in bags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Your Service: Getting Queued In | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...poems--The Rose That Grew from Concrete--published last year by Simon & Schuster, drew enthusiastic reader reviews. And it won't be long before a Shakur bio plays on the screen; MTV and several film companies are kicking around scripts. "He is a pop-culture icon," says Michael Develle Winn, the playwright behind Up Against the Wind. "People say he's alive because they can't bear the thought that he died so senselessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tupac Is In The Building | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...prospect for new business in such places as rural Venezuela, where the government's peculiar radio-frequency allocations drive up costs fourfold for some components. "If we could get low-cost, 128K wireless connections into their schools, offices and homes, they'd go crazy for it," says Scott Winn, the firm's South America manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond NAFTA: Oranges For Bulldozers | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

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