Today, eBay issued a notice of an upcoming annual meeting, in which the company asked shareholders flat out to vote against Icahn's proposal to spin off PayPal.
You don't have to be subtle; just flat out say "Vote for me!" Be proud.
Those who had previously supported the flat tax instead voted for every tax cut that came down the pike without worrying for a moment whether it was improving the tax code or serving some unmet social need.
Two-thirds of both congressional chambers would need to support the resolutions in order to override Obama, an effort that will likely fall flat given past voting records.
Toward the end, he was left politically isolated and his efforts to stop the veto override vote fell flat.
Despite his refusal to support action in Syria, Mr Miliband is not flat against force: he voted to bomb Libya and Iraq.
If the Lib Dem vote does flat-line, it will raise further questions over Clegg's tattered leadership.
Yet such a formula would give many poor countries, which account for a tiny share of the world economy but a big share of the fund's work, still less say in its affairs.To rectify this, each member may be given more "basic votes", a flat allocation, awarded regardless of economic size.
Members of Congress who flat-out refuse to vote to create jobs, stop layoffs and help the jobless should be ashamed of themselves.
He tells me how he rebelled against his father's flat-cap socialism, voted for Thatcher and realised, when his dad finally died in 1985, that the old man had been right all along.
