On US and UK campuses there is a growing practice of no-platforming, and demands to approve (and remove) staff, and to vet courses and syllabuses deemed "offensive", "disrespectful" and even "discomforting".
If the Red Sox do acquire Damon, he has the option not to go -- or to demand financial incentives to approve the deal.
He said today that the state's interest should end when the tigers cross the state line, but a spokesman for the State Division of Fish and Wildlife insisted that New Jersey would demand the right to approve the tigers' destination.
Citizens in Arizona, for instance, demanded a referendum to approve a redistricting commission in 2000, and, to the surprise of most experts, the measure passed.
In continental Europe owners are grumpy, too: in February almost a third of voting shareholders at Novartis, a Swiss drugs firm, demanded the right to approve its remuneration policy each year.But taking bosses to task for their ever-escalating salaries is not a substitute for keen oversight of performance and strategy.
Greece's international creditors demanded the cuts to approve the latest batch of loans from its international bailout programme, as agreed earlier this month.
(Koch demanded the right to approve the appointees, and his foundation rejected most of the initial candidates).
The F.D.A. has been under pressure from some patient advocates who contend that it demands too much data to approve drugs for cancer, potentially allowing people to die.
"If that's the face-saver for them, let them have their face-saver," she said of those demanding changes in order to approve funding.
It's unclear how Weinstein found out about the call, but he had a demand: Roberti was to vote to approve Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as the law firm to investigate the amfAR-ART transaction and to advise amfAR on other corporate governance issues.
