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Stockholders should force options to expire

Institutional managers can no longer afford to ignore what I believe is a ticking time bomb on corporate…

Institutional managers can no longer afford to ignore what I believe is a ticking time bomb on corporate America's balance sheet: The soaring use of executive stock options.

Part of the problem is the nature of the options themselves. Options provide corporate managers with incentive-related increa

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