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- BUSINESS, Page 48Business NotesCOMPENSATION Getting The Message
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- Stockholder gripes about executive greed are beginning to
- make dents in the armor of some of the nation's top brass. A
- proxy statement revealed last week the first application of
- Westinghouse Electric's tough pay-for-performance system, which
- slashed the income of CEO Paul Lego and 13 other top officers
- by as much as 62%. With that response to the company's $1
- billion loss on nearly $13 billion of sales last year,
- Westinghouse joins IBM, which cut the compensation of chairman
- John Akers and four of his colleagues by 40% and took smaller
- cuts from 60 other executives after Big Blue's first annual loss
- ever.
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- Despite a trend toward the curbing of executive bonuses,
- not all companies are marching in the same direction. At
- Paramount's annual meeting last week, one shareholder tried
- unsuccessfully to table a motion calling for 5.75 million shares
- of future stock options for executives. Chairman Marvin Davis
- claims creative businesses require such lures to hook and hold
- top talent. Stockholders registered resounding agreement: better
- than 90% of shares voted at the meeting approved the motion
- authorizing the Paramount perks.
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