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To: Jimbo Cobb who wrote (57670)	4/13/1999 8:32:00 PM
From: JGibbs	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

I don't exactly know how this works but let's take a hypothetical situation: CEO's are paid extremely high salaries and benefits for what they are able to accomplish in the way of driving the profits of the company up, thus driving stock prices up on speculation that the earnings will continue to grow, thus inspiring shareholders (us) to invest more of our paltry salaries in their company. This then drives up the CEO's compensation...and so on and so on. So,....let's see if the CEO does the reverse (i.e. CPQ & EP), then shouldn't the CEO's pay (base as well) be adjusted to fit his performance as much towards the negative as the positive. Just a thought, I could have it all wrong.