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To: dale_laroy who wrote (133396)	4/26/2001 9:38:08 AM
From: GVTucker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

dale, RE: But owning part of the company is nice, so I would generally say--exercise your options, sell enough stock to cover the cost of the options plus tax, keep the rest of the stock. Note that given the person is already an employee of the company, that person has a ton of risk already in that company. Holding an overweighted position in that company's stock is probably not wise for most non-executive employees. If things turn down, there's no safety net, and no six figure income to cushion things in the near future. This can (and did) cause a lot of problems for a lot of people. When you're talking about executives in a company, there are a whole host of other issues to consider. But when you're talking about rank-and-file staff, the risk/reward usually isn't there.