Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many company directors must be longing for the good old days of annual meetings, when the chief distractions were usually corporate gadflies like Evelyn Y. Davis, Wilma Soss and the Gilbert brothers. Those "professional shareholders" just talked a lot, loudly, and annoyed company chairmen with demands for more "corporate democracy" through cumulative election of directors...
Maureen Finn '83 and Mark A. Rolling '83, the co-chairmen of the 1983 class gift fund, stated that they would not attend the debate in a letter which arrived by messenger five minutes before the event, which drew an audience of about...
...leaders, including himself, and with characteristic brashness he predicts that Chrysler, though possibly not its U.S. competitors, will conquer. He proclaims, "I was arrogant, but GM made a science of goddam arrogance. I think the Townsends of this world,*the Henry Ford Us and some of the GM chairmen wrecked this industry. That arrogance should be gone now. We got our comeuppance. If GM and Ford keep thinking that way, we'll run over them. If they had been on the ball, I don't think we'd have made it. So who wants to wake them...
...state legislators will probably try to earmark the $20 million in tax revenue for college financial aid because, committee chairmen say, the state's scholarship funding is far below the national average...
...came blinking into the brilliant glare of the television lights, an obscure Pentagon bureaucrat suddenly brought before the eyes of two powerful committee chairmen, a dozen Senators, eight television cameras and scores of lobbyists from companies with contracts to build new weapons systems. Even though it was Friday afternoon, a time when most members have either headed home or gone out to campaign for President, the special hearing called by the Senate Armed Services Committee last week was packed. The object of interest: a young bureaucrat who had finally been freed from his drab office on the second floor...