71.   Chrysler said its officers were generally exercising options to buy the stock at set prices, then choosing to sell it immediately rather than hold it.

72.   Colangelo, who provided the impetus to lure Burke and Gluckstern to Phoenix, has not exercised an option to purchase a percentage of the Coyotes.

73.   Comcast Corp. said it will decide by next month whether to exercise an option to acquire a controlling interest in E!

74.   Companies love them because they need not account for the grants as employee costs and because companies reap big cash flows and tax deductions as workers exercise their options.

75.   Collins exercised the options, which had been part of his compensation, after about nine months.

76.   Dynegy said on Wednesday that it would exercise its option to acquire the pipeline.

77.   Dynegy says it has exercised that option, but Enron says that the merger termination was illegal.

78.   Employees who can exercise their options and sell shares will do so, thereby depressing an already declining market.

79.   Dynegy says it now plans to exercise that option.

80.   Employers get a deduction when employees exercise options, but as Kay and other compensation consultants note, these days few are cashing them in.