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<text id=90TT0688>
<title>
Mar. 19, 1990: Business Notes:Shareholders
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Mar. 19, 1990 The Right To Die
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 53
Business Notes
SHAREHOLDERS
Score One for The Gadfly
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<p> Ask CEOs who is the last person they want to see at their
annual board meetings, and the answer will be unanimous: Evelyn
Y. Davis. With small holdings in some 120 firms, Davis attends
50 or more meetings each spring, needling executives with her
comments on company policies and repeated calls for points of
order. Her past targets range from Henry Ford II to T. Boone
Pickens.
</p>
<p> Last week the corporate gadfly claimed a victory against the
world's largest corporation. General Motors' board of directors
agreed to Davis' demand for a policy that would ban payment of
above-market prices for stock held by a potential corporate
raider. Davis first made her anti-greenmail proposal three
years ago, after GM paid H. Ross Perot $743 million dollars for
his stock--almost twice its trading value. Davis, who also
publishes Highlights and Lowlights, a newsletter about
corporate policies, believes that GM had no choice but to
accept her proposal, which had substantial support among
stockholders. Says she: "I was in the driver's seat."
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