Word: ruling
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...their letter, the Harvard professors endorse the intent of the proposed reform but push for revisions to the specifics of the proposal. Instead of the current reform’s rule that shareholders be able to nominate directors with as little as a one percent stake in the company, they proposed the bar to be eligible be raised to five to 10 percent ownership in the company for at least one year. Currently, the proposal requires only a one percent stake to nominate...
...first hours as Japan's new ruling party, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and its leader Yukio Hatoyama wasted no time preparing for a transition of government. In the historic Aug. 30 general election, the Japanese people - about 70% of eligible voters cast ballots - ended a half-century of nearly unbroken rule by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Hatoyama's party took 308 of the 480 seats in the House of Representatives, 12 seats shy of a two-thirds majority that would have allowed the party to single-handedly pass bills rejected by the upper house...
...These decisions [about how to react to deaths of public figures] ultimately depend on the Holy Father," says the Vatican diplomat. "There's no fixed rule." (See pictures from a Kennedy family photo album...
...little free speech and no democratic elections. Health care and education are free, and the prices of staple foods are controlled. Unlike Libya's neighbors, Egypt and Algeria, the country has "no big urban proletariat with very little money," says Dalton, who sees little threat to Gaddafi's continued rule, despite his astonishingly long reign. (See pictures of Africa...
...Communist Party-ruled China has long vilified the Dalai Lama for what it claims as his attempt to fight for independence of Tibet, which has been under communist rule for decades...