Fund Seeks Power to Nominate Disney Directors
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Four of the largest U.S. public pension funds on Tuesday said they would ask Walt Disney Co. shareholders to change company policy to let investors nominate two independent directors to the board.
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GEORGETOWN, Del. - Walt Disney Co. CEO Michael Eisner discussed the possibility of hiring Michael Ovitz as president with two directors and a major shareholder as early as May 1995 - almost five months before
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Presidential candidates may solicit contributions for a general election campaign even if they later decide to take public money for the race, federal regulators said Thursday in a proposed opinion.
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Walt Disney Co.&#39;s board of directors on Wednesday raised the annual dividend 14 percent and appointed Fred Langhammer, the former chief executive of cosmetics company Estee Lauder, as a director.
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Wanted: Face time with President Bush or top adviser Karl Rove. Suggested donation: &#36;100,000. The middleman: lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Blunt e-mails that connect money and access in Washington show that prominent Republican activist Grover Norquist facilitated some administration contacts for Abramoff&#039;s clients while the lobbyist simultaneously solicited those clients for large donations to Norquist&#039;s tax-exempt group.
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WILMINGTON, Del. -- A Delaware corporate law judge Wednesday heard a plea from attorneys for former Walt Disney Co. president Michael Ovitz that asks to remove Ovitz from the list of defendants in a shareholder
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The Walt Disney Co.  board of directors on Tuesday said it expected to find a chief executive to succeed Michael Eisner by next June and would consider both outside executives and Disney President and Chief Operating Officer Bob Iger for the position.
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Roy E. Disney, a nephew of Walt Disney, and his financial adviser, Stanley P. Gold, called on directors of the Walt Disney Company to search for a successor for Michael
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Media executives in Hollywood and on Wall Street are nervously watching a court case involving Walt Disney that will test whether directors can be held responsible
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Four of the biggest U.S. public  pension funds said on Tuesday they would press for the right to  have shareholders nominate directors to Walt Disney Co.'s  DIS.N board of directors.
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California Gov. Arnold  Schwarzenegger on Monday nominated a leading financial backer  and campaigner for the state's stem cell initiative to chair a  committee to oversee the $3 billion, 10-year research effort.
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Four of the biggest U.S. public  pension funds said Tuesday they would press for the right to  have shareholders nominate directors to Walt Disney Co.'s  DIS.N board of directors.
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Disney kept investors in the dark over cash it paid to some of its directors and their relatives - including Michael Eisner foes Roy Disney and Stanley Gold - the Securities and Exchange Commission said yesterday.
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Fidelity Investments' largest funds voted to oust Michael D. Eisner from the chairman's post at Walt Disney Co., in one of last year's biggest proxy battles, according to voting records the nation's largest mutual-fund firm has made public for the first time.
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Disney directors said they would hire an executive search firm immediately and name a successor by June to replace Michael D. Eisner, the current chief executive.
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The Walt Disney Co. board of directors received rare praise Tuesday from its biggest critics, Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold, who say they support having an outside firm help find the successor to CEO Michael D. Eisner.
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Four of the largest US public pension funds on Tuesday said they would ask Walt Disney Co. shareholders to change company policy to let investors nominate two independent directors to the board.