Then we had all the stock-option selling in Silicon Valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Briefed: Louis Navellier] Reference

But in top managements everywhere, the stock-option bandwagon always rolls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Go Jump In A Lake] Reference

Securities and Exchange Commission charges related to stock-option backdating.    From Wordnik.com.  [RIM Officers Settle Charges] Reference

Three weeks later De Sole retaliated, creating an employee stock-option plan (ESOP).    From Wordnik.com.  [You Can't Touch This] Reference

He's recruiting workers as fast as he can, luring them with fat stock-option packages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herr Upwardly Mobile] Reference

How do you design a stock-option plan acceptable to regulators in six different countries?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hitting The Wall At Boo] Reference

Nancy Tullos has pleaded guilty in the stock-option case and is cooperating with prosecutors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Nicholas and Mr. Hyde] Reference

The company rebooted the stock-option plan and added debt outside the glare of quarterly earnings.    From Wordnik.com.  [HCA Buyout May Pay Off Big] Reference

A Corporate News article on Saturday incorrectly said an employee stock-option plan borrowed the money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corrections & Amplifications] Reference

A previous version of this article on incorrectly said an employee stock-option plan borrowed the money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tribune Stock Plan Draws U.S. Subpoena] Reference

Companies need shareholder approval to tinker with now-valueless stock-option plans or re-elect directors.    From Wordnik.com.  [RiskMetrics' Words Gain Currency] Reference

On Sunday, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde pushed the bank to drop the stock-option plan completely.    From Wordnik.com.  [At SocGen, an Options Giveback] Reference

SEC officials said the men were part of a scheme to back-date employee stock-option grants between 1998 and 2003.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEC Charges Broadcom] Reference

The approach of a three-day weekend, hedge-fund redemptions and stock-option expirations contributed to the volatility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dow Comes Out on Top Despite a Tough End to Week] Reference

"I am pleased to be able to help bring the stock-option dating issues closer to complete resolution," Dr. McGuire said.    From Wordnik.com.  [UnitedHealth Ex-CEO Settles Pay Case] Reference

Greater trust was put in workers, and an employee stock-option plan was introduced, among the first in the steel industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steel Executive Cast an Empire] Reference

After stepping down as C.E.O. of Colgate-Palmolive, Mark began cleansing his portfolio of his generous stock-option grants.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's 50 Richest Paydays] Reference

Monster was among the companies whose stock-option practices received scrutiny in a 2006 Wall Street Journal investigation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ex-President] Reference

Compensation data-tracker Equilar Inc. is receiving more research requests related to equity-grant practices and stock-option exchanges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Market Leaves Firms Running Out of Stock Options] Reference

This month it is introducing what it claims will be Europe's best stock-option plan -- a motivational tool lifted straight from Silicon Valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buying American] Reference

At Microsoft, for instance, employees have made far more in stock-option profits, realized and unrealized, than Microsoft has paid them in salary.    From Wordnik.com.  [People Of The Bull] Reference

In June 2006, Broadcom announced that it had received an informal inquiry into its stock-option practices from the Securities and Exchange Commission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Nicholas and Mr. Hyde] Reference

Computer programmer Gary Wall never invested with Cook but got interested in the claims Cook makes for his system of turning stock-option trading into gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scam Busters On The Web] Reference

What's more, the market would produce so much in stock-option profits and capital gains that state, local and federal governments would be awash in tax revenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Rules Of Retirement] Reference

Brocade CEO Gregory Reyes resigned in 2005 after the storage networking company revealed discovery of accounting irregularities in connection with stock-option grants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tech's most notorious CEO scandals] Reference

In a bold step last week, the broadcaster CBS announced it was ditching traditional pensions for newly hired employees and substituting a stock-option plan for everyone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dow Generation] Reference

Microsoft, high priced already, with tens of billions of dollars of obligation s to stock-option holders and endless squabbling with the Justice Department, rose 38 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Goes Up. . .] Reference