The multi-share class structure gives Vanguard fund managers flexibility in how they manage their funds.
But it was Henry Ford's tax-avoidance strategy two decades earlier that first established the dual-class structure.
The hierarchal class structure of Britain still exists and still causes injustice to millions.
And if it is, what do mega-events like the crash of 2008 do to the class structure?
In Venezuela the class structure essentially was determined by access to state privilege.
The RPG element comes into play because only certain characters, based on class structure, can unlock certain areas of the map.
Ford declined to comment, but referred to a previously issued statement in response to a shareholder proposal to eliminate the dual-class structure.
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As a rational, liberal-minded sort of bloke, he considers the English class structure to be a piece of antiquated and retrogressive nonsense.
Yes, a social media currency combined with a social class structure.
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However, day-to-day dilution from routine equity-based employee compensation and other possible dilution, such as stock-based acquisitions, will likely undermine this dual-class structure and our aspirations for Google over the very long term.
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Google (GOOG) announced last night that it would create a triple class structure, to ensure the founders and Eric Schmidt hold on to full control of the company forever even as they use more stock for employee compensation.
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In the mid 1930s, Henry Ford and his son, Edsel, set up the two-class structure as part of their estate planning: the charitable Ford Foundation received most of the shares, but they kept a small block of Class B shares that had voting rights, thus assuring family control.
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As my colleague Eric Savitz notes, Workday has a dual-class stock structure.
The dual-class share structure at News Corp gives a strong power base to Rupert Murdoch and his close allies.
's dual-class share structure, which allows CEO Murdoch to control the company through the 40 percent of voting shares he controls through a family trust.
The family answers to no one, running the company as if it were private, thanks to a dual-class stock structure that was set up when the company went public in 1969.
The company is out raising money again, and Mr. Goldberg said his investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, support creating a new dual-class voting structure that gives him control after the round closes as long as he stays CEO.
Workday has a dual-class stock structure.
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According to the new naming structure, new class designators refer to the specific category that the smartphone product fits into, for example a premium device, or an entry-level device.
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The fire moved quickly through the house, a one-story wood-frame structure in a working-class neighborhood of Corsicana, in northeast Texas.
For the class warriors of the left, fox-hunting is wrong because the structure of the hunt reflects ossified social hierarchies.
The Association of School and College Leaders has warned that confusion over its complex structure and a low take-up rate could doom the qualification to second-class status.
In an English-language class, Mohammad Bakhtiari stood in front of his pupils and discussed the architecture of the language: sentence structure, the formation of paragraphs, the conjugation of verbs.
He said his firm would put in place an "attractive" fare structure, including a 15% reduction in standard tickets and new categories of fares, including a new class between standard and first.
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