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- <title>
- Mar. 19, 1990: Business Notes:Shareholders
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 19, 1990 The Right To Die
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 53
- Business Notes
- SHAREHOLDERS
- Score One for The Gadfly
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- <body>
- <p> Ask CEOs who is the last person they want to see at their
- annual board meetings, and the answer will be unanimous: Evelyn
- Y. Davis. With small holdings in some 120 firms, Davis attends
- 50 or more meetings each spring, needling executives with her
- comments on company policies and repeated calls for points of
- order. Her past targets range from Henry Ford II to T. Boone
- Pickens.
- </p>
- <p> Last week the corporate gadfly claimed a victory against the
- world's largest corporation. General Motors' board of directors
- agreed to Davis' demand for a policy that would ban payment of
- above-market prices for stock held by a potential corporate
- raider. Davis first made her anti-greenmail proposal three
- years ago, after GM paid H. Ross Perot $743 million dollars for
- his stock--almost twice its trading value. Davis, who also
- publishes Highlights and Lowlights, a newsletter about
- corporate policies, believes that GM had no choice but to
- accept her proposal, which had substantial support among
- stockholders. Says she: "I was in the driver's seat."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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