Owners say such committee votes reflect the sentiments of the powerful NBA commissioner, who usually sides with keeping teams in their cities.
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Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson led a spirited fight and convinced a committee of NBA owners earlier this week to reject the Seattle bid.
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We are not apologists for the owners, nor do we constitute a Committee Against Change.
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The tuck rule could disappear from NFL games if owners approve a proposal from the competition committee to dump it.
People, particularly small business owners, are starting to push back and the committee can help.
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The committee will be talking to residents, site owners and local councillors.
Even the outside directors are big owners: Max Bobbitt, a telecoms consultant who chairs WorldCom's audit committee, has nearly half a million shares.
The biggest problem is to persuade the members of the compensation committee to care at least as much about rewarding the company's owners as they do about rewarding the chief executive who appointed them.
Damian Collins, who is part of a Commons committee looking into how football in England is run, wants to know more about owners Sisu Capital.
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Ninety-five percent of all business entities declare business profits on their owners' personal tax returns, according to an August 2012 report from Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation.
In its 400-page report, the committee recommended that the owner of Rana Plaza, Sohel Rana, along with the owners of the five garment factories housed in the building, to be charged with "culpable homicide, " for allegedly forcing employees to return to work on April 24 even though cracks had appeared on an exterior wall the previous day.
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