Once the school-board battle had become a proxy for city-government power games, the opportunists jumped in.
Mr. Burkle has since launched a proxy battle aimed at winning three board seats.
The general election game plays out the polling battle on a computer controlled board that is part-Monopoly, part-Trivial Pursuit.
"If I have to go into battle with someone in a board meeting and this person is always arrogant, I want them to feel a little intimidated, " Carney says.
Then in early 2005, one of BioMarin's largest shareholders, health care-focused money management fund OrbiMed Advisors, launched a proxy battle in which it requested three new board members.
Using his board, the surfer managed to battle against strong winds and the tide to bring the stranded man back to shore.
Critics of his extravagance tried to oust him from the board but he survived a proxy battle by a slender 50.7% margin.
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The execs have been united by the divisiveness of the merger battle, in which Walter Hewlett, an HP board member, first voted in favor of the Compaq deal and then waged a noisy public campaign against it.
The battle went through the French courts, ending in 1990 with Mr Racamier's dismissal from the board.
Bumi shareholders will have their first chance on Thursday to take sides in a battle between the founders of the mining company, as a vote will consider whether to revamp its board.
And in Mr Shaw's Fort Lauderdale seat, the charges that Mrs Bloom had been on the board of a drug company later investigated for price-fixing has turned that race from a battle over Medicare into a contest of business ethics, giving Mr Shaw the edge again.
That reopened the battle in Yokohama, with CDT staff counsel Alan Davidson and Common Cause general counsel Don Simon lobbying meeting participants, board members and anyone else who would listen to their pitch to oppose the staff plan.
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