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To: AK2004 who wrote (183223)	1/19/2006 4:26:56 PM
From: GVTucker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

AK2004, RE: The strike price adjustments are very common I just do not have any specific info for Intel. If you will tell me that intel execs are different from pretty much all the rest of the execs of large corporations then I'll have to take your word for it No, it isn't very common. In fact, it happens very rarely in large corporations. Under the old accounting rules, if options are repriced, they must be immediately expensed. Because options otherwise weren't expensed up until next year, large corporations that had a decent following by Wall Street analysts were reluctant to reprice options. And that doesn't even get to the ethical question of options repricing. I would fathom to guess that among the S&P 500 fewer than 1% of the companies repriced options.