Gaming companies that once had very limited exit options now have a widening and diversifying pool of suitors.
Then there are the options now offered by new technologies that were once only viable in commercial spaces.
"We have more options now and more certainty, " said Gabriel Barreda, president of Mexico's National Union of Coffee Growers.
In a few companies, outstanding options now account for almost half the equity.
But the final ruling says there are more options now for obtaining an unlocked phone than in previous years.
Many workers who exercised incentive stock options now face big tax problems.
If you are more keen to watch your pennies than counting stars, there are an increasing number of affordable (almost a dirty word here until a couple of years ago) options now available.
More holidays, maternity and paternity leave, more frequent job rotation and share options also now feature.
So what are execs with options doing now and what should they be doing?
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According to Matt Ward of WestWard Pay Strategies in San Francisco, more than 25% of employee stock options are now in the red.
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Moreover, most income from executive stock options is now reported as W-2 wage income, while before tax reform it was reported as capital gains when exercised.
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"I'm delighted to have got Damian on board and am pleased with the options we now have up top, " Kettering manager Mark Cooper told the club's website.
This is a game changer in sight-affecting diseases, that represents a huge step forward for the field and for these patients who were without any available treatment options until now.
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As one analyst told me yesterday in Berlin, there is a tension in political circles, an awareness that key decisions will have to be made before summer and "all options are now on the table".
These options have now been ruled out for Thames Valley but, in future, mergers and takeovers should not be regarded as the last resort: it may well be the best and quickest solution for an ailing university to be absorbed by another with successful courses, high standards, good management and a strong image.
Many executives get paid in options and shares now in lieu of large cash bonuses.
The United States and other world powers have been focused on diplomacy, not military options, for now.
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The time to patch up a pothole on stock options accounting is now.
"There are a lot of treatment options for patients now, " says Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Robert Motzer, who led the study.
Getting informed is one of the only options we have now.
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The OV5645 comes in CSP and RW packaging options and is now available for sampling, with mass production expected to begin in the first quarter of 2013.
For the investor with less to invest that wants direct exposure to a finite basket of municipal bonds that will be held to maturity, there are now options.
"There are so many options for hysterectomies now that patients should discuss the pros and cons of all of them with their doctors, " said the study's lead author, Jason Wright, an associate professor of women's health at Columbia University.
Even if you don't know what to do with a message, you can still do something: Each message has a small bookmark in its top right corner that, when tapped, displays options that include Now, Today, Tomorrow and Next Week.
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