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...least 500 shareholder proposals have been submitted to managements so far this year, but hardly any have polled the 3% of proxy votes necessary to merit revival at next year's meeting. A proposal that Warner-Lambert study the effect of its advertising on drug abuse won 3.2% of the votes. A motion to include women, employees, consumers and blacks on boards of directors earned 3.9% at AT&T and 4.2% at Chrysler. Also at Chrysler, a resolution for disclosure of information on safety, pollution and minority hiring polled 4.5%. At other annual meetings, managements disposed of such affronts...
...onetime Indiana farm boy who looks like an English teacher (which he was) and talks like a teetotaling church deacon (which he is). Wooden at 61 still stresses the coaching tenets he learned at Purdue under the late Ward ("Piggie") Lambert: "Get the players in the best of condition, and make them believe they are in better condition than our opponents, so they won't fold in the second half. Teach them to execute the fundamentals quickly but without hurrying. Get them to play as a team, always thinking of passing the ball before shooting...
Edel finds this same sturdiness - this same toughness beneath urbanity - in James' later novels. Did James lack strong feelings? Listen, Edel says, to the words of Lambert Strether in The Ambassadors, sent abroad to rescue a young New Englander from un-Puritanical Paris and rather falling victim himself: "Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long as you have your life...
...Shirly Lambert, public relations chairman for the Business Wives, said before the show, "If our husbands can learn to use marketing techniques to become part of the business establishment, we can use marketing techniques to sell something like this in order to help some children...
Penn State has again won the Lambert Trophy as the outstanding college football team in the East...