Leading shareholders in Trinity Mirror are pressing the board to reduce the pay of its chief executive, Sly Bailey, reports the Financial Times.
Daly and Crosby have been attending Exxon annual investor meetings since 1997, pressing the board to address the mounting case for urgent action on environmental issues.
They were recently joined by the Edinburgh side Hearts and activists at Celtic have been relentlessly pressing their board to match them.
The Bush administration is also pressing the board to include in its resolution a "trigger" that would result in penalties if Iran backed away from any new commitment.
Mr. Vallone, who has in the past sided with the mayor in pressing school board officials to pare their administrative spending, last week joined the other Democratic mayoral hopefuls in criticizing Mr. Giuliani.
Activist investors, led by the Starboard Value hedge fund, have run out of patience and are pressing the board to sell the core business, separating it from the company's far more valuable investment stakes in Alibaba, China's leading e-commerce company, and Yahoo Japan, a separate, publicly traded company.
Over the last year, regulators have been pressing corporate boards to draft policies denying huge severance payouts to senior executives if the firm teeters on collapse.
State Senator Thomas K. Duane has been pressing community boards to adopt resolutions opposing the move and calling for more intake centers in each borough.
PAGE A8 Dispute Over Bible Course An advocacy group pressing school boards to accept a Bible course it designed has had some recent success.
At the time they were barely pressing 300 boards for each new graphic.
