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- <text id=92TT1509>
- <title>
- July 06, 1992: Business:Et Cetera
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- July 06, 1992 Pills for the Mind
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 20
- BUSINESS
- Et Cetera
- </hdr><body>
- <p> THE CHAIRMAN GETS HOW MUCH?
- </p>
- <p> Under current rules, it's all but impossible to figure how
- much corporations actually pay their top executives. To take
- the mystery out of proxy statements, the SEC proposes that
- companies use uniform tables to show senior executives'
- compensation and illustrate more clearly how the corporation is
- performing compared with similar firms. The SEC also wants it
- spelled out how the directors determined the salary. The
- proposals could be adopted by the 1993 proxy season.
- </p>
- <p> NOT GUILTY, BUT . . .
- </p>
- <p> Sears, Roebuck & Co. initially said there were no problems
- in its automotive-repair division. But with the repair business
- off 15% across the U.S. since accusations of overcharging were
- made three weeks ago, the company admitted it had some problems
- after all. In response to an 18-month investigation in
- California that claimed Sears "systematically" cheated
- customers, the company announced that it would discontinue
- commissions and quotas for salespeople.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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