21.   Arlington, Virginia-based US Airways airline had until Saturday to exercise an option to buy Shuttle at a price determined by an outside party.

22.   Apparently buoyed by that small success, Alou exercised his option Wednesday and passed on batting practice.

23.   As expected, the team failed to reach accord with Heyward and did not exercise its option.

24.   As a result, the government could potentially have demanded that the executives who exercised the options each turn over millions of dollars to the IRS.

25.   ARGENTINE stocks declined on selling by investors who needed cash to pay for shares they acquired by exercising options last week.

26.   Argentine stocks fell for a second session as investors sold shares to raise money to exercise options expiring this week.

27.   As at other technology companies, the woes of workers at Microsoft stem in large part from tax bills incurred when the options were exercised.

28.   As part of his severance agreement, all the options can be exercised at any time he wishes.

29.   At Exxon Corp. for example, executives such as Chairman Lee Raymond sold stock after exercising options earlier this year.

30.   At the urging of the brokerage firm Microsoft hired to run its options plan, they borrowed heavily to exercise their options before the stock plunged.