The pair planned to buy 3% to 10% stakes in a handful of midsize companies whose stock had performed poorly, and then pressure management to change its ways.
Apple's stock has risen 2% since David Einhorn, manager of hedge-fund firm Greenlight Capital, launched a public campaign to pressure management to return more cash to investors.
Last November, he proposed an outside slate of directors to pressure management at ITT Corporation, the White Plains, New York-based conglomerate that includes a sizable military electronics component among its various business lines.
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The protesting employees have recently taken up a "work-to-rule" action -- in essence, performing only the bare minimum of work required by their contracts in an attempt to slow airline activity and pressure management to pay attention to their grievances.
Cintas talks and talks about ethics, but they put so much pressure on management to get results that ethics are constantly being overlooked.
Supposedly, analysts are another force for good corporate governance, putting pressure on management by providing investors with independent analysis of a firm's accounts and prospects.
The plaintiffs claim that BP put profits before safety, and the oil leak happened because drilling was rushed due to pressure from management to cut costs.
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Asked whether there had been pressure from management on Newsnight to drop its Savile investigation, he said there was no evidence of this and denied any BBC cover-up of the allegations.
Carrefour did so after French billionaire Bernard Arnault teamed up with Colony Capital, an American real estate fund, to buy 10% of the hypermarket concern earlier in the year. (See: "Carrefour Drops As Arnault Takes Stake") After the purchase, the new shareholders reportedly put pressure on management to carve off the property assets.
What's holding them back, said McKinsey, is a simple "lack of incentives and market pressure" on management.
Chairman Darragh MacAnthony heaped pressure on the management and players last week with a statement on the club's official website.
But George Entwistle told the Commons culture committee he did not believe management pressure had led to a report on the former presenter being shelved.
Prof Benton added that evolutionary change added an additional pressure to population management schemes, namely that it was much more difficult to reverse than ecological change.
At a time when cost-cutting pressure has pitted management against labor in newsrooms everywhere, Graham is regarded by his employees as a benevolent figure, a throwback to an earlier era of corporate paternalism.
Greater economic volatility in the markets, accompanied by increased uncertainty, has generated pressure to improve risk management capabilities in the insurance industry.
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The FAA has been under lots of pressure to improve project management after a history of delays in implementing improvements and cost over-runs.
"The management was under pressure from the committee to improve results, " said Glamorgan chairman Paul Russell.
Markets expect Facebook to go public in the short-term, as its ever-rising number of shareholders puts pressure on regulators to ask management to release more financial information.
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My assumption is that at some point in the coming weeks, Verizon will make an offer to Vodafone to buy this stake - and may also make its offer known, because it may believe that Vodafone's shareholders would put pressure on Vodafone's management to crystallise the valuation of the company's assets.
Naturally, management is putting more pressure on those who are left to get their jobs done faster.
Villas-Boas knows all about the pressure at the highest level of management.
Save to say that our Trust management is under intense pressure to meet various targets which it has been recognised we are under-resourced to do.
Oil and gas firm Faroe Petroleum has bowed to pressure from shareholders and shelved a proposed new management bonus scheme.
Under pressure by billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, management decided to shake up the board, replacing four of the eight independent directors.
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Mr. NEIDL: As oil prices continue to go up, and especially if we're going into a slow economy and airlines begin to lose a lot of money, it'll put greater pressure on everybody - employees, investors, management, and the government - to look at consolidation.
"The recession has put real pressure on us, " said Oliver Theil, a management spokesman.
If China can heal some of those rifts with a greater focus on rescuing those left behind by the new prosperity, this may in turn take some of the pressure off the government to subsidise export workers through currency management.
And while many of his fellow Premiership head coaches have been turned prematurely grey by the stresses of top-level management, Pountney appears to be impervious to the pressure.
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But the pressure mounted in late March, when he executed a surprise management shuffle that elevated Zoe Cruz and Stephen Crawford as co-presidents at the expense of then-president Stephan Newhouse.
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