Suppose Microsoft didn't have any stock options -- poof, all gone -- and had to compensate all of its employees, from Bill Gates down to the lowest-paid stock clerk, with straight salaries.

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Lord Falconer said he disagreed with the decision of the Clerk of Public and Private Bills who had said it was not a "prima facie" hybrid bill and quoted a 1977 bill and a 1988 Speaker's ruling to argue that it was.

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