Sentence examples for options proposal from inspiring English sources

In early 2002, people started warning Mr. White, the TechNet president, that the fallout from scandals at Enron and other companies would breathe life into the long-dormant stock options proposal.

Although the options proposals are nonbinding, the votes could protect the F.A.S.B. from Silicon Valley lobbyists.

"Tech didn't really have any kind of presence in Washington, so the stock-options proposal was really pretty far along before we even knew what was going on," Tom Proulx, a co-founder of Intuit, the finance software firm, said in an interview in 1998, when he was one of Silicon Valley's leading political voices.

Now the option proposal has been dropped, and Mr. Mayo has resigned.

In a rare victory for opponents of such packages, Jones Apparel, a maker of clothing and shoes, withdrew a stock-option proposal last month.

The public-option proposal was conceived as a means of accommodating moderates, bringing market forces to bear on the problem of cost by creating a new entity to compete with private insurers.

Cleveland Clinic's Henkel does not believe that there are even 60 votes for the watered down public option proposal.

I reported that Conrad said he could support "major parts" of Schumer's public option proposal.

Lincoln Journal-Star reporter Don Walton interviewed Nelson on Wednesday and concluded that "Nelson is wary of the public option proposal".

But the president's universal coverage and public option proposals are directly at odds with his emphasis on cost containment.

Besides Mr. Baucus, two Democrats, Senators Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, voted against both public option proposals.