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...Investors this year have asked for so-called "say on pay" at some 100 companies, including Coca-Cola, IBM, General Motors, Exxon Mobil, Citigroup, Anheuser-Busch, General Electric and Wal-Mart. As companies hold 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...
...mean, you like some of that stuff, right?" As I waxed socio-economical on how the authors were trying to make a statement about classism and yuppies and liberal mind-traps (#62: Knowing what's best for poor people. "They feel guilty and sad that poor people shop at Wal-Mart instead of Whole Foods, that they vote Republican instead of Democratic... deep down, white people believe if given money and education that all poor people would be EXACTLY like them"), I thought, "Oh crap, she's right. I like ALL of that stuff...
...have any affinity with your father's Russian heritage? -Claire Mythen, Dublin, IrelandI was there not long ago. It's so vast. I know America is vast, but there is a Wal-Mart everywhere in America, whereas in Russia it's vast, and it really changes. When I go to Russia, I realize I look Russian; people come up to me and speak to me in Russian...
...sales, like installing automated Verismo espresso machines. By no longer having to scoop and tamp coffee for each shot, baristas could make a drink 40% faster, moving customers through lines more quickly. Drive-throughs became standard, and the company released its first CD. Smith's successor was a Wal-Mart veteran, Jim Donald, who took the company into books, movie promotions and oven-warmed breakfast sandwiches, which added about $35,000 to the average store's $1 million annual sales...
...some 2 million people outside North America bought last fall's Long Road out of Eden, for instance, the first studio album from the Eagles in decades. But supermarket muscle has driven down the retail price of compact discs. The only U.S. store selling that Eagles CD was Wal-Mart, for the bargain price of $11.88. The average price of a CD in Europe dropped by 4% between 2003 and 2006, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. One way to maintain price levels is to offer deluxe products that pair a standard CD with a fancy book, live recording or DVD. Radiohead figured...