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Beneficial Ownership of Common Stock
The following table sets forth the beneficial ownership of our common stock held as of April 14, 2008 (1) by each
person who is known by us to beneficially own more than 5% of the outstanding shares of our common stock, (2) by
each current director and nominee for director, (3) by each of the named executive officers listed in the Summary
Compensation Table included elsewhere in this proxy statement, and (4) by all current directors and executive officers
as a group:
Number of Percentage of
Number of shares common
shares acquirable stock
beneficially within 60 beneficially
Name of beneficial owner owned (1) days (2) owned (3)
5% Stockholders
FMR LLC............................................. 105,023,822 (4) 0 14.97%
82 Devonshire Street
Boston, MA 02109
Directors, Nominees for Director and Named Executive Officers
Basil L. Anderson ........................................ 178,360 (5) 397,125 *
Arthur M. Blank ......................................... 182,564 85,500 *
Mary Elizabeth Burton .................................... 38,364 175,500 *
Joseph G. Doody ........................................ 280,356 462,086 *
Justin King ............................................. 6,414 0 *
John J. Mahoney ........................................ 237,406 1,122,712 *
Carol Meyrowitz ......................................... 7,614 0 *
Michael A. Miles, Jr. ..................................... 386,484 563,962 *
Rowland T. Moriarty ...................................... 352,787 (6) 153,000 *
Robert C. Nakasone ...................................... 320,472 (7) 175,500 *
Demos Parneros ......................................... 297,864 (8) 472,140 *
Ronald L. Sargent ........................................ 1,737,821 (9) 4,778,437 *
Robert E. Sulentic ....................................... 6,414 0 *
Martin Trust ............................................ 625,910 (10) 175,500 *
Vijay Vishwanath ........................................ 7,014 6,750 *
Paul F. Walsh ........................................... 140,263 (11) 175,500 *
All current directors and executive officers as a group (18 persons) .... 4,900,805 8,918,971 1.94%
* Less than 1%
(1) Each person listed has sole investment and/or voting power with respect to the shares indicated, except as
otherwise noted. The inclusion herein of any shares as beneficially owned does not constitute an admission of
beneficial ownership. Amounts do not reflect shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options available on
April 14, 2008 or within 60 days thereafter.
(2) Reflects shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options available on April 14, 2008 or within 60 days
thereafter.
(3) Number of shares deemed outstanding includes 701,702,963 shares of our common stock outstanding as of
April 14, 2008 and any options for shares that are exercisable by such beneficial owner on April 14, 2008 or within
60 days thereafter.
(4) Fidelity Management & Research Company (‘‘Fidelity’’), a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR LLC (‘‘FMR’’) and
an investment adviser, is the beneficial owner of 102,829,221 shares as a result of acting as investment adviser to
various investment companies. The ownership of one investment company, Magellan Fund, with offices at
82 Devonshire Street, Boston, MA 02109, amounted to 48,309,255 shares. Edward C. Johnson 3d (‘‘Johnson’’),
chairman of FMR, and FMR, through its control of Fidelity, and the Fidelity Funds each has sole power to
dispose of the 102,829,221 shares owned by the Fidelity Funds. Members of the Johnson family are the
predominant owners, directly or through trusts, of Series B voting common shares of FMR, representing 49% of
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