"Baseball is in the midst of an incredible renaissance," said Bud Selig, the sport's top executive -- later acknowledging, "the economic problems are so pervasive that all options should be on the table".
The use of options is pervasive in the compensation packages of other senior executives, according to the survey, and has reached at least half the total pay for chief financial officers and the like for the first time.
Then a few years later the news about pervasive backdating of stock options exploded.
They leave because their families will go hungry unless they can find work; because their religious beliefs make them a target for hate crimes; because the gang violence in their neighborhood is so pervasive that their only options are to join or flee.
A pervasive concern that treatment options should be equitable led many in the forum to advocate a means test for co-payments (namely, that a patient's contribution should be relative to their capacity to pay).
While women undoubtedly should be able to use their method of choice, it is well known that many women in the countries under review here have limited options, given pervasive knowledge-related, access-related, and societal barriers, as well as resource constraints.
That's because executive compensation scandals continue to dominate headlines, with stories about pervasive backdating of executive stock options and a ruling forcing former New York Stock Exchange boss Dick Grasso to pay back tens of millions of dollars in compensation.
As for the optical drive, you can pick up Apple's Superdrive (or any other external drive), or you can probably live very happily without given how pervasive digital distribution and other options like SD card (the iMac comes with a built-in reader) and Flash-drive storage are now available.
"It creates this pervasive illusion that the only options you have are those that they're holding out," Atif says at the top of episode two.
While classrooms will be in use for many years to come, their value will diminish quickly as the online options become more pervasive.
