Senior figures inside the DWP said the PIP reforms were the "least worst" option handed to the department.
Mr. Glynn has embarked on a campaign to educate the public about why a settlement is the preferred option, handing out fact sheets explaining that bankruptcy is bad not only for the company, but for consumers.
The most obvious option — handing back the Vivo cash to shareholders as a dividend — may not be so attractive for management but "the worst thing that they could do is to rush" into another acquisition, said Georgios Ierodiaconou, a telecommunications analyst at ING in London.
It could essentially deprive the Republican Party of voters who might otherwise consider the GOP option, handing the Democrats a permanently expanded base, not only in southwest but in much of the country.
Perhaps ask if guests prefer red or white, then pick one or two brand name wines (as a general rule, California cabs and chardonnays are safer choices than more esoteric European options), hand the list back and get on with the business of the evening.
Consider the possible mending options: Hand stitch small holes.
Brian Hall of Harvard University and Kevin Murphy of the University of Southern California have established that top executives received under 10% of the options handed out at that time.
But the Enzi-Reid bill would overrule the rule makers and require companies to deduct only the cost of options granted to the top five executives of a company, not the options handed out to lower-level workers.
Several expect that companies will soon be forced to take charges against earnings for stock option grants, which could spur boards to scale back the number of options handed out to even the highest-level executives.
