Word: percent
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From the time a raider acquires 5 percent of a company's stock until two years after the takeover is completed, all employees who are laid off without good cause would be entitled to two weeks severance pay for each year they had been employed...
...some provisions, such as the severance pay, are expected to draw opposition from business lobbyists. Merger specialists also predicted that the 5 percent threshold would be challenged in court as an unconstitutional intrusion on federal authority over interstate commerce...
Finally, the bill would require approval from the owners of at least 40 percent of a company's stock to call a special meeting of the company's shabeholders. Now, approval from just 10 percent is needed--a right that was meant to ensure accountability but "has been abused lately" by some hostile raiders, said Stephen B. Kay, a partner in the brokerage firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. who served on the Dukakis commission...
According the admissions report in the 1921 Official Registrar, which covered the years from 1917 to 1920, 60 percent of Harvard students were form private schools; that compares to 34 percent now. Eighty-eight percent of students were from New England and Atlantic states, compared to 53 percent today. Three percent hailed from Western states, compared to 15 percent today. Only a handful of students came from foreign countries--between .1 and .4 percent--and today foreign students comprise 6 percent of the student body...
There were only a few Asian students in the Class of 1921; now Asian-Americans comprise 13 percent of the student body. In 1909 there were five Blacks--.02 percent--compared to 11 percent today...