It's easy to see why Rodgers would squawk about the proposal to expense options.

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The defendants were convicted in 2009 of one count of conspiracy for selling day traders access to the information that came from the internal squawk boxes, allowing the traders to beat larger firms to orders on securities.

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Armed with open lines to their best customers, the brokers bark prices into squawk boxes all day, hoping to entice traders into doing a deal.

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Its inks have been used by Fisher-Price to make Sesame Street posters that squawk, yapping Happy Meal boxes for McDonald's and an inflatable radio from Toys "R" Us that has no buttons or dials.

FORBES: Touchy Circuits

The six defendants in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York had claimed that prosecutors withheld testimony from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that would have shown the business information obtained from the squawk boxes loudspeakers connected to intercoms that broadcast information about trades was not confidential.

FORBES: 'Squawk Box' Defendants Denied Bid For New Trial

Critics will squawk that deregulation might deny some individuals access to phone service.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

"If tomorrow, Romney had the absolute number, I would probably continue in a modified way to maximize the number of delegates to go to the convention, " Paul said on CNBC's "Squawk Box, " adding that his supporters insist he stay in the race.

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They cut prices either for students who squawk or for those who appear likely, absent a price break, to matriculate elsewhere.

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