Canning Fok, managing director of telecoms giant Hutchison Whampoa, Mannesmann's biggest shareholder, has testified that he first proposed the bonuses.
But the idea dates back to the early 1970s, when economist Friedrich Hayek first proposed the denationalisation of currencies.
Bengen recently tested this formula against the decades of data that have accumulated since he first proposed the idea.
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When first proposed the plans attracted numerous objections from Dundee residents.
They further say their bigger rival applied for the patents before the FAA first proposed the new rule in spring 1998--without revealing its interest to the agency.
James Lovelock, who first proposed the Gaia theory, used an analogy with living organisms, all of which can, to some degree, regulate conditions within their own bodies.
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In February, 2012, Stuart Butler, the author of the Heritage Foundation brief that first proposed the mandate, wrote an op-ed for USA Today in which he recanted that support.
In 2000, former Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki first proposed the FCS project in an attempt to make the Army more deployable, networked, jointly synchronized and survivable.
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She first proposed the idea ten years ago and "was laughed out of the room" by skeptical doctors who figured brain tumor growth was too erratic to predict, Swanson says.
Snowe first proposed the so-called "trigger" idea for a public option months ago, and has talked to Obama about it on several occasions, according to a source familiar with the discussions.
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To prevent West Germany from formally joining NATO, the post-Stalin Soviet leadership reiterated this offer in 1954 and first proposed the convening of a Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
Mr Billington first proposed the creation of a World Digital Library (WDL) to UNESCO in 2005, remarking that such a project could "have the salutary effect of bringing people together by celebrating the depth and uniqueness of different cultures in a single global undertaking".
Named after Nobel Laureate economist James Tobin, who first proposed the idea in the 1970s, the funds collected from the tax (a fraction of 1% of the transaction) would be used as a global fund for development, and for recovering from crises like today's.
The existence of the Higgs boson was first proposed in the 1960s by Edinburgh University physicist Peter Higgs.
The third measure the coalition is targeting was first proposed by the Treasury last year, but it was skewered by the then-Republican-controlled House Small Business Committee.
The reforms, part of what is called the Retail Distribution Review, were first proposed by the FSA back in early 2010.
The pan-African GGW was first proposed in the 1980s by Thomas Sankara, head of state in Burkina Faso, as a means to stop the growing of the Sahara.
The change to Section 203 of the Labor Management Reporting Disclosure Act was first proposed in the waning days of the Clinton administration and then shelved by the incoming Bush administration.
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The idea of a mansion tax was first proposed by the Lib Dems before the last election, although the Conservatives oppose the move and the policy was not adopted by the coalition government.
Glaxo said last year that it would build a new facility at one of four potential sites in the UK if a patent box, first proposed by the Labour government in 2009, was brought in.
However, after months of intense lobbying by the for-profit schools, their front groups, and conservative lawmakers, the new rules are significantly weaker than draft rules first proposed by the Education Department last year.
The secret of the Duke device is a spherical lens, a design first proposed in the late 19th century.
In this context, the development of the Holistic Early Childhood Development Index (HECDI) was first proposed at the World Conference on ECCE organized by UNESCO in September 2010 in cooperation with the Russian Federation.
Though El Glaoui was never able to meet and thank Churchill, the exhibition at Leighton House Museum -- which was first proposed by the artist's daughter -- is a belated meeting between the two painters.
So John Middlebrooks, also at the University of Michigan, and Russell Snyder, at the University of California, San Francisco, have gone back to an idea first proposed in the 1970s: to penetrate the auditory nerve and stimulate the nerve fibres directly.
The concept that stem cells run-amok may fuel cancer's spread was first proposed in the 1960s.
The first is the proposed indexation of the minimum wage.
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