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...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 to linking pay to performance. "This isn't an attack on companies in general," says Smith. "This is good governance, just like ratification of auditors...
...founders of the "say on pay" movement probably wouldn't put it so diplomatically. In the fall of 2005, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), a union that runs a $850 million pension fund, was trying to figure out what to do about CEO pay - especially at Home Depot, one of its holdings, where then CEO Bob Nardelli was collecting a nearly $32-million pay package for the year, while the company's stock languished. "We had reached a level of frustration because it seemed CEO pay, no matter what we did as activist investors, kept...
...vault as well, including a larger, padded safety zone around the take-off point. "I remember it was a big thing in the gymnastics world," she says, when the International Gymnastics Federation's new rules required the springboard to be surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped mat. "You wouldn't get credit for the vault if you didn't have a safety mat," says Miller. "Before that, it was just the springboard, and if you launched crooked, then you were going to get hurt." Today, safety mats around all of the apparatuses are thicker, and better padded; officials are even talking...
...certainly wouldn't be doing what I do if I didn't see success, because it would be pretty depressing. I've already started to hear from women, based on this book, saying, I got my husband to read part of the book and for the first time he's willing to address this issue. That's the first step. In the same way that Bob Dole made "erectile dysfunction" a household word and took the sting out of having a sexual dysfunction, I think people need to feel it's okay. We know so much about how to help...
...storm that threatens to blow in just when everyone's watching - and deciding whether they want to participate in China's Olympics. The Prime Minister of Poland has already indicated he will boycott the opening ceremony because of events in Tibet; French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said he wouldn't rule out a similar move. U.S. President George W. Bush called his Chinese counterpart Hu to urge Beijing to engage the Dalai Lama in a dialogue. Others could seek to distance themselves from the Games, if only as a precaution against "being seen on television dining with Chinese leaders...