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  • That's a sad situation, but doesn't leave you optionless.

    Hillary Rettig: Your Best New Year's Resolution: Do Less Housework! 2009

  • Why would it make sense to let corporate chairmen pay minimal taxes on stock options when they receive them, as called for in the bible, and for them to keep all the capital gains the options generate, while optionless middle managers pay full freight?

    There's Still No Free Lunch 2008

  • I feel bad for the thousands that may find themselves jobless and for the large group of borrowers that will eventually find themselves optionless when it comes to getting a fast, short term loan to meet unexpected events.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A Last Case for Payday Loans 2008

  • They will think you are merely a new either a slave or one who, optionless, will soon be reduced to their status, one who will then be no more than they.

    Kajira Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1983

  • People discuss the otherwise optionless women who happen to be pretty enough or whatever to go into porn?

    Renegade Evolution 2009

  • But, as the emotionless market calculating machine of WalMart has figured out, Kellogg’s and the GSA aren’t the only ones with access to an optionless cheap labor pool or the ability to exploit state-created economies of scale.

    Cry Little Girl, Cry 2009

  • Obama’s cratering has come somewhat from independents, but mostly from disillusioned Democrats who expected much more progressive change they could believe in than, say, bank bailouts and public optionless health care reform and wrongly, since Obama campaigned on escalating the Afghanistan war an escalation of the Afghanistan war.

    Yes, These Will Be Your Afghanistan Allies | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Sorry Metro, but I don’t think there’s anything in the deal that these mostly poor, optionless folks sign when they enlist about going into combat on false pretenses.

    US military makes, breaks amnesty deal « raincoaster 2006

  • a business will end up with the most self-esteem challenged, optionless team members when the dust settles.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2010

  • a business will end up with the most self-esteem challenged, optionless team members when the dust settles.

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2010

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