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...AFSCME decided to try an approach that had been codified into law in Great Britain three years earlier: "say on pay" votes, a method meant to harness investor sentiment into a unified message more forceful than any one shareholder complaining to a company's board of directors could deliver. After AFSME petitioned for such votes at a handful of companies in 2006, a swath of other investors, including heavyweights like the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and TIAA-CREF, which sells retirement investments to educators, submitted shareholder proposals at dozens of companies in 2007. Of the eight companies that...
...Most companies, not surprisingly, aren't so amenable to the idea. The core argument against the movement is that CEOs get paid a market rate and say-on-pay votes undermine the very nature of corporate governance - a board of directors charged with luring and keeping the best talent. In the rebuttal statements to say-for-pay proposals found in their annual proxies, companies lay out all sorts of counter-arguments. IBM says there's no way that shareholders can know what's an appropriate pay practice since they're not privy to competitive information like which executives are receiving...
...sanitary. Seriously. 4) Vespas for Quadlings. It’ll look like Hells Angels took over Garden Street every day. But Euro chic. 5) On dorm room doors, eye readers instead of keys. Manual locks are so passé. 6) Students will now get $600/semester in Board Plus. Greenhouse Café is going to have some long lines. 7) Plasma TVs mounted on dining hall walls, broadcasting pertinent information like which dishes require a fork. 8) Instead of “Savory Spotlights,” HUDS will fly someone’s mom in every week to actually...
...being required to make the transition to club status, many have felt pressure to do so. Nadia O. Gaber ’09-’10, a member of Women’s JV Soccer, says that she “got the picture that across the board they are trying to cut the JV program.” The Athletic Department were not available for comment. Jacob E. Segal ’09, a member of Men’s JV-gone-Club Soccer team, witnessed the team’s transition. While Segal did not feel that...
...aide, Carter Eskew, had done work on a tobacco industry advertising campaign that was aimed at undermining the Clinton Administration's tobacco settlement deal. (The work had been done before Eskew joined Gore?s campaign, and he left the firm at Gore?s request when he came on board...