Word: solicits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried to pressure the company to stop bomb production by staging demonstrations at plants. Pillsbury did not participate in the picketing. Instead, last month he filed suit in a Minneapolis court to win the right to inspect the list of Honeywell's other shareholders. He wants to solicit their proxies for Honeywell's April 28 annual meeting, with the aim of electing at least one director who would vote to stop the manufacture of bombs...
...dozens of other mutual funds to incorporate "offshore," the tax-dodging criticism has lost much of its sting. Last June, I.O.S. quietly shifted its legal domicile to Canada. European bankers who once sneered at Cornfeld's brash ways have lately begun to copy his sales methods and solicit his business...