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- <title>
- Mar. 09, 1992: Business Notes:Compensation
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 09, 1992 Fighting the Backlash Against Feminism
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 49
- Business Notes
- COMPENSATION
- Fire the Messenger
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- <p> Mention the name Graef Crystal in a corporate boardroom, and
- you're likely to hear a collective growl. Crystal, 57, is the
- nation's foremost critic of high executive pay, and for half a
- decade he has been outraging business leaders with his
- high-profile columns describing just how overpaid they are. But
- Crystal is beginning to find it difficult to get his message
- across.
- </p>
- <p> Last week, after an intimidating barrage of corporate
- complaints, Financial World magazine abruptly dropped the
- regular column written by the University of California,
- Berkeley, business professor. Eight months earlier, Crystal--weary of sideline debates with executives on Time Warner's
- business side about the theoretical value of chairman Steve
- Ross's stock options--had terminated a four-year relationship
- with FORTUNE.
- </p>
- <p> Crystal says advertisers and powerful corporate officials
- had pressured Financial World to kill his column. But magazine
- officials claim Crystal was let go largely as a result of some
- errors he made in evaluating executive pay packages. Whatever
- the reason, Crystal is not giving up. He's now prepared to
- purchase stock in companies he believes send out overweight
- paychecks. That would enable him to haunt proxy meetings and
- demand shareholder votes on compensation.
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