Word: compels
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...contemplating new rules that would force companies to disclose executive compensation more fully in proxy materials. In addition, it would compel boards to justify in the annual report or proxy statement what a CEO's pay really is -- in all its components -- and why it's reasonable. Companies would be required, for example, to spell out in a new summary table which elements of executive pay are cash and what the present values of stock grants and options are -- something only compensation experts are able to calculate...
Okay, so Aleo's hypnotism may not make you reveal your innermost truths or compel you to "cluck like a chicken." It may not match the excitement of a Scooby-trance...
...Crimson: I noticed that, I also noticed that you added lines, for example when the stable boy tries to compel Miss Julie into saying the word "fucking." I don't remember that in the script, although I could be wrong...
Smaller papers have also been struggling to halt invasion of privacy. At the Wichita Eagle, editor Merritt decided in 1990 to change coverage to compel gubernatorial candidates to speak to the issues and "get off the crap sound- bite kind of campaigns." The paper polled a thousand readers and nonreaders before and after the campaign and concluded that readers had greatly enhanced understanding of issues while nonreaders did not. Says Merritt: "We are convinced that the appetite is out there for the kind of journalism all of us would like to do on campaigns. If a candidate is running around...
Meanwhile some Congressmen have readied a freedom-of-choice bill that would attempt to compel states to keep abortion legal and uniformly available. Any such law would be subject to challenge as an unconstitutional infringement on states' rights. But it would give Democrats the advantage of forcing Bush to cast a highly visible anti-choice veto in the midst of his re-election campaign...