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...shareholders. The votes are not binding, but the investors' disapproval can prove embarrassing. Three tough stock- market years, plunging pensions and job cuts everywhere have sharpened attitudes toward corporate excesses, even in the traditionally passive British shareholder culture. One Barclays bank investor made news by telling chief executive Matthew Barrett at the recent shareholder meeting that with a pay package of $2.6 million, he was getting the "equivalent to 10 High Court judges." Robert Smith, a quiet-spoken retired structural engineer, also sharply questioned banking group Abbey National's board. Abbey last year lost $1.6 billion, halved dividends but paid...
...Matthew H. Eckhouse ’04, who has come to call Rock Bottom “The House,” expressed frustration over the loss of what he sees as Cambridge’s only affordable...
...studied that pot in graduate school." LIEUT. COLONEL MATTHEW BOGDANOS, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve officer, examining a clay pot recovered after looting in Iraq...
...U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln last week, when the President said the war on terrorism would be a fight that lasts years, he should have added that some of its most pitched battles will be fought in our courts. And in our own divided hearts and minds. --Reported by Matthew Cooper and Viveca Novak/Washington, Rita Healy/Denver, Kathie Klarreich/Miami and Jeffery Ressner/Los Angeles
...hope is, the more space we create and the fewer questions we ask, the more thoughtful responses we’d get,” said Matthew W. Mahan ’05, who is also chair of the Undergraduate Council’s Student Affairs Committee...