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...ISS disclosed its recommendations to investors on Friday, saying they should withhold votes from Susan Decker, David Gottesman, Walter Scott Jr and Meryl Witmer, who make up the compensation committee....
...It is pretty clear to me that the SEC hasn’t really thought this through,” said Decker. The SEC declined to comment....
...also came from both the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, and hundreds of companies listed on the two stock exchanges such as shipping and logistics giant FedEx, power tool manufacturer Stanley Black & Decker...
...Eric Hageman will step in as interim chief financial officer. He was previously CFO at TelecityGroup in the UK and Royal KPN in the Netherlands. More here....
...Mr Wasserman was asked to chair the bid by Eric Garcetti, the Los Angeles mayor. The city has an inbuilt advantage....
...I rode Ford’s travelling pavement, the last word in people-moving, undulating above the steel and glass structures together with well-upholstered families burying their faces in multi-decker sandwiches....
...The National Transportation Safety Board was collecting information about the incident, said Eric Weiss, a spokesman for the agency in Washington....
...eric.platt@ft.com Twitter: @ericgplatt...
...“The low-wage sector helps low-skilled people find work,” says Eric Thode at the Bertelsmann Foundation, a think tank....
...Félicien Juttner is a breathless Hernani opposite Jennifer Decker’s delicate yet iron-willed Doña Sol, while Jérôme Pouly manages the king’s speeches with appropriate grandeur....
...I told Eric, the township club manager, that the last time I was there was nearly 20 years ago to the day to cover a riot. “I was one of the ones throwing stones at you,” he beamed....
...Preston Bus, the local bus company, part of Aim-listed Rotala Group, has painted two double deckers in guild livery....
...The Goldfinch introduces us to Theo Decker, a modern-day Dickensian hero, and his suitably picaresque adventures in New York, Las Vegas and Amsterdam....
...The Hundred Decker Bus, by Mike Smith, Macmillan, RRP£6.99, 32 pages A double-decker bus driver leaves his route and heads off on an adventure....
...preceding 10 Opus watches you would have a “greatest hits” of 21st century watchmaking, with pieces by FP Journe, Antoine Preziuso, Vianney Halter, Christophe Claret, Felix Baumgartner, Greubel & Forsey, Eric...
...The result is a triple-decker piece of performance art....
...When John Thompson, one of the technology industry’s top headhunters, singled out a veteran engineer named Eric Schmidt to run Google, it turned out to be one of the great Silicon Valley hires....
...Eric Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, has waded into the debate about Microsoft’s pursuit of Yahoo, saying the world would be “better off” if the group were to remain independent....
...Google’s response: According to Eric Schmidt, “It’s not obvious it makes a significant difference in monetisation” to have the higher volume. The vagueness on both sides is telling....
...He clearly lacked the software expertise of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founders, or even of Eric Schmidt, its chief executive....
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