Mr. Dear, 57, is also chairman of the Council of Institutional Investors, a Washington nonprofit group that promotes shareholder activism — an effort close to the heart of the Calpers's board and one reason he was hired.
Now I understand that nurse's approach was part of a larger coordinated effort, close to 40 years in the making.
Returning to Quogue one evening in 1996 from an outreach program with the Westhampton Presbyterian Church that brings sandwiches and clothing to help the homeless in Manhattan, Mr. Sears decided to focus his efforts closer to home.
In Kosovo today, the United Nations effort is closer to traditional peacekeeping.
In an effort to get closer to the earth he sometimes walks barefoot, quite often coming a cropper.
Later in the day, they acknowledged that the effort was no closer to succeeding than when they started.
Israelis were suspicious of Obama to begin with and became even more so when he made an overt effort to get closer to the Arab world.
Laura Merling leads Alacatel-Lucent's API-related businesses, which acquired ProgrammableWeb this year in an effort to get closer to developers.
