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...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 saw majority shareholder votes in favor of instituting say on pay, three -Blockbuster, Verizon and Par Pharmaceuticals - said they would...
...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 funds to be in favor of the idea - but they were. "I realized that when they decided yes, others would follow," he said, "That it was something that was coming...
AMSTERDAM Shoppers at Frozen Fountain who are feeling nostalgic favor Vika Mitrichenka's Grandmother's Treasures...
...vote to change the name of the Department of English and American Language and Literature to simply “Department of English” passed at yesterday’s meeting, Department Chair James T. Engell ’73 offered up a humorous yet passionate speech in favor of the change, using the current unwieldy title and overdramatic language for comic effect.“Those of you who have followed literary studies in the past few decades may wish to detect in this some secret semiotic code or bewitchment,” he said of the change...
...adopt an open-access requirement—the first ever at a university. While the policy mandates that professors provide their scholarly articles to the University’s online repository, professors will able to request a waiver to opt out of the project. The primary arguments in favor of open access for scholarly literature written by faculty and students are both pragmatic and ideological, according to Grant W. Dasher ’09, one of the leaders of the Free Thesis Project. He added that there is a need to drive down the cost of scholarly journals, which would...