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To: slacker711 who wrote (52133)	7/16/2002 1:32:39 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 54805

<<... Options are a great way to tie the employee to a company (and also give the employee a personal stake in the company doing well) but I think companies may have gone overboard in the number of options that they have granted...>> I tend to agree with you...IMO, granting HUGE blocks of options at the highest executive levels of many companies in the 90s helped accelerate a culture of greed...Here's a recent New York Times quote about options... "...the stock-options culture is at the root of the current scandals on Wall Street." -NY Times