Though the new system likely wouldn't allow Twitter back into China, initial reaction was negative among those who use it there through proxy services.
On Friday, Egan-Jones Proxy Services said Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ) shareholders should vote against the reelection of C.
According to the Swiss security researcher who runs Abuse.ch, the use of free proxy services like Glype, Tor, and others have an option which allows administrators to log the traffic flowing through their proxy server on the Glype network.
Regardless of that answer, in any proxy contest, like SandRidge and Dell, the endorsement of proxy voting services such as ISS or Glass Lewis is critical.
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All four of the major proxy voting services have recommended the ousting of various directors at Washington Mutual (nyse: WM - news - people ), a Seattle thrift that earlier this week announced a bigger-than-expected first-quarter loss and an infusion of capital from Texas Pacific Group as it tries to repair its battered mortgage-laden balance sheet.
"We believe in one share, one vote, and if all we get back are bromides about the need to preserve journalistic integrity, we think the burden is on the company to prove its model maximizes shareholder value, " says Christopher Young, of proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services.
At 12 companies in the Russell 3000 stock index, a majority of voting investors have recommended against pay plans this year, according to Institutional Shareholder Services, a proxy advisory firm.
In any event, influence may be shifting from the army, which keeps largely to its cantonments, to the Inter Services Intelligence, which orchestrates the proxy wars in Afghanistan and India's part of Kashmir.
So far in 1999, says Pat McGurn of Institutional Shareholder Services, which provides institutional investors with proxy analysis, disaffected shareholders have already won a vote in six contests to put their candidates on corporate boards but reached a favourable settlement in 25 more.
Such a view is not surprising, given her background: she has worked since 1986 with Bob Monks, one of America's best-known champions of better corporate governance, setting up Institutional Shareholder Services, which advises big institutions on casting proxy votes.
In Northern Ireland, we do have a series of figures called called the indexes of production, services and construction which are sometimes used as a proxy for GDP.
He looked at the flow of goods, services, FDI, migration and information (using telephone calls as a proxy).
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