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...familiar terrestrial one: the lowering of a horn's pitch as a car speeds away from an observer. From that yardstick, the astronomers calculated that the galaxies were receding from earth at more than half the speed of light, or better than 93,000 miles per sec. Since objects with higher velocities are presumed to be more distant in a universe that seems to be expanding at a uniform rate, scientists figured the galaxies were about 10 billion light-years away. That meant they were at least 10 billion years...
Last month, CCRP members asked the SEC to recommend action against Mobil if it omits their proxy...
Mobil also claimed that the resolution contained "false and misleading statements" and can be excluded under an SEC rule which prohibits such material...
Mobil argued that the CCRP proposal relates to the "conduct of the ordinary business operation" of the corporation, and can be omitted under SEC rules...
Gary S. Guzy, a law student and former director of the CCRP, said Mobil's conclusion about the similarity of CCRP's 1980 and 1981 proposals is "entirely unjustified," adding that it did not contain false or misleading statements. In a letter to the SEC, Mobil stated that the CCRP resolution is not limited to South Africa and Rhodesia, and could prohibit important investments in Canada and Britain, two countries whose secrecy laws also prevent full disclosure of the use of goods and services supplied by the company...