Word: stanley
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...their annual meetings throughout April and May, some 70 different institutional investors will be pushing to add an annual provision to let shareholders vote up or down on how companies pay their top five executives. Earlier this week, about 150 institutional investors and representatives from companies like Pfizer, Morgan Stanley, Dell, BP, Sara Lee, Fed Ex, Procter & Gamble and United Health gathered in New York for a roundtable on say-on-pay votes. Such votes wouldn't actually be binding, but they still might serve to pressure firms into behaving the way shareholders want them to, especially when it comes...
...Kara Ross lizard belt ($575, Stanley Korshak...
...Michael D. Smith discussed plans for a wide administrative restructuring at the meeting, emphasizing a bigger role for divisional deans and proposing to temporarily slow faculty hiring.The divisional deans would take on increased roles, including control over budgeting, faculty searches, hiring and salaries, and academic and strategic planning.Government professor Stanley Hoffman expressed worry that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences administration might become too bureaucratic like his native France, and that teachers and researchers might be “not just constrained but pushed aside by professional administrators.”English professor Elaine Scarry sympathized with the need...
...Stanley Ann DunhamBorn in 1942, just five years before Hillary Clinton, Obama's mother came into an America constrained by war, segregation and a distrust of difference. Her parents named her Stanley because her father had wanted a boy. She endured the expected teasing over this indignity, but dutifully lugged the name through high school, apologizing for it each time she introduced herself in a new town...
...During her life, she was known by four different names, each representing a distinct chapter. In the course of the Stanley period, her family moved more than five times-from Kansas to California to Texas to Washington-before her 18th birthday. Her father, a furniture salesman, had a restlessness that she inherited...