31.   Standardized options have equivalent terms and trade on an exchange, which makes them easier to buy and sell than customized options.

32.   The bundled trades would appear at Allfirst as one trade, and only one option would have to be fabricated.

33.   The option has to be acted on by Thursday.

34.   The options have other uses.

35.   The other option is having the cards shipped to you, but it makes them no longer valid to trade online.

36.   The most ambitious option would have the city take over nearby Hawthorne Airport and convert it from a general aviation facility to one for commuter airlines.

37.   The options also had to be held for a minimum of one year.

38.   The other options have risks of their own, most prominently not keeping up with inflation.

39.   These costlier options have strike prices that rates have already reached.

40.   To be realistic, the censure option still has a pulse, but it is as faint as it can get without stopping altogether.