11.   Even if it had, Boeing said, shareholder proposals are not binding.

12.   Few companies ever back shareholder proposals on social or political questions, Bertsch said.

13.   First Interstate has never adopted anti-takeover defenses that would prohibit shareholder proposals.

14.   He said shareholder proposals are an important way for his group to gets its message to company executives about human rights, tobacco, and other concerns.

15.   He was so upset that he considered submitting a shareholder proposal calling for the money to be set aside in a deferred account, Scott said.

16.   Helen Quirini and Hank Antonelli from Schenectady, N.Y., spoke in favor of a shareholder proposal that raised the issue of pension payments.

17.   Howard also introduced a shareholder proposal that would require the board to get shareholder approval for all compensation awards tied to a change in control of the company.

18.   In addition, voters rejected by a wide margin six shareholder proposals that had been opposed by Philip Morris management.

19.   In Cracker Barrel, the SEC allowed the company to exclude a shareholder proposal that barred job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

20.   In that case the commission allowed the company to omit a shareholder proposal calling for Cracker Barrel to prohibit job discrimination against homosexuals.