His father worked as a bartender, his mother as a maid and stock clerk.

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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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The NTSB released documents Monday showing that employees of SabreTech told investigators that the oxygen generator canisters were sitting around a stockroom at SabreTech in Miami when a stock clerk decided to gather them up and send them back to ValuJet in Atlanta.

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