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...released this week by proxy-advisory firm Proxy Governance Inc., shows a spike in the number of shareholders casting votes against the election of a company director - even when the director was uncontested. The study found that about 10% of directors who were up for election in the first eight months of 2009 saw at least 20% of the shares either voted against them or withheld. That's up from 5.5% of directors in 2008. The percentage of directors seeing at least 40% of the shares voted against them more than doubled to 2.1% from 1% during the same period...
...change treaty to replace the expiring and flawed Kyoto Protocol - meant to culminate at the U.N. climate-change summit in Copenhagen at the end of the year - have all but ground to a halt in recent months. Despite the election of U.S. President Barack Obama, who pledged to reverse eight years of climate inaction by former President George W. Bush's Administration, developed and developing nations remain gridlocked over who should be cutting carbon emissions - and who should be paying for it. Yvo de Boer, the head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), told reporters...
...biff it?’ It’s all or nothing.”There would be no biffing for Ingersoll, however. In just 1.5 sets, the sophomore racked up 11 kills and a .714 hitting percentage.With its top offensive weapon back in play, the Crimson won eight of the next 10 points. Harvard soon pulled to 24-23, emulating the Crusaders’ work the previous set.“Everyone just realized at that point that we weren’t going to have a repeat of the second game, and we really needed to finish...
...searches in New York City turned up evidence that Zazi may have been looking to manufacture either truck or backpack bombs. Zazi and his father appeared in federal court in Denver on Sept. 21; Afzali appeared separately in federal court in Brooklyn. The trio currently face up to eight years in prison, though officials warn the investigation is continuing and more charges may be forthcoming. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...
...That still beats what many of them escaped. "If I go back to Afghanistan, the Taliban will kill me," said Nasser Khan, 25, who fled last year after his parents and two brothers were killed in a raid on their family home. Stuck in France for nearly eight months, Khan describes feeling increasingly jittery and disoriented. "I have headaches. My family is gone. I cannot sleep at night," he said on Monday, standing in a clearing in the camp. "I close my eyes and see my family...