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...Amos knows something about talking to investors. The Aflac CEO was stunned a year and a half ago when he found out that a shareholder had submitted a proposal for a say-on-pay vote at his company. "My first inclination was, What have we done wrong?" he says. As it turns out, nothing. When he talked to the people at Boston Common Asset Management they said a vote was simply in the general interest of shareholders. Amos then went to the insurance company's largest shareholders and asked what they thought. He wasn't expecting large, fairly conservative mutual...
...Guys that have hit in the past aren’t hitting, guys who have proven they can hit in high school just aren’t getting it done, and I have no explanation...
...interest dissipated,” said Mayor E. Denise Simmons, who was a member of the School Committee at the time. Yesterday’s roundtable was “just an investigation,” though, according to Fowler-Finn. “Right now, this is being done from the top down,” Fantini said of the initiative to discuss IB. “Only four members of the school committee voted to have this meeting.” —Staff writer Vidya B. Viswanathan can be reached at viswanat@fas.harvard.edu...
...Smith spoke briefly in favor of yesterday’s measure, casting it as part of a larger effort by the Faculty Council aimed at “streamlining faculty procedures and making them more useful.” Confronted with Burgard’s suggestion that more be done to understand the reasons for the decreased consistency in attendance, Smith expressed worry about the Faculty’s efficiency in the interim. “I absolutely want to get to the bottom of whatever it is too,” Smith said. “But I think...
...original version of this article noted that in 2000 "Al Gore drew fire when it was revealed that a key aide, Carter Eskew, had done work on a tobacco industry advertising campaign that was aimed at undermining the Clinton Administration's tobacco settlement deal." In fact, Eskew had done the work before he joined the campaign, at which time Gore insisted he leave his firm...