The SEC suggests that the proposed rules could lead to an increase in the number and effectiveness of "nominal" proxy contests, in which the dissidents incur little more than the basic costs required to engage in a contest – i.e., they solicit holders that represent at least a majority of voting power and file a proxy statement, but do not engage in any other soliciting efforts.
Wilson said the group then moved its money soliciting efforts to its own website where an anonymous donor agreed to match the last $10,000.
Lastly, from a practical perspective, I would recommend that as part of the engagement with a larger set of academic entrepreneurs on campus (both successful and unsuccessful), the survey/interview deployed by the authors engage these individuals in soliciting programs, opportunities, efforts, and ideas to improve the existing stagnant innovation culture on campus.
In reacting to the crisis in Darfur, aid agencies wasted valuable time and effort soliciting funds from donors, who were slow to respond or responded merely with promises.
As Daniel Golden, a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, explains in his new book "The Price of Admission," Ivy League college presidents, admissions deans, and trustees spend a great deal of time and effort soliciting these lucky students, many of whom are admitted with S.A.T. scores three or four hundred points below those of some rejected applicants.
But Japanese political analysts say they expect the Government of Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu to join the project, though perhaps at a level far lower than the United States is soliciting, in an effort to alleviate growing tensions between the two countries over technology.
For example, he wrote a letter in 1979 soliciting money for antiabortion efforts that called several United States senators "baby killers".
Ultimately, leadership managed to strike a balance across these areas, continuing to drive the change effort while soliciting contributions of a broad set of managers and staff.
The Internet-based study adds a new tool for collecting subjects that goes well beyond using introductory psychology students, phone and mail surveys, and the exhausting effort of soliciting subjects from the community.
It is not just about soliciting routine, low-level effort from an untrained army of volunteers.
Thus, for the biobanks that solicit follow-up efforts from children, both research interests and respect for the child are underlying motives to involve the child in the consent procedure.
