By contrast, Cook only has 13, 754 actual shares of common stock right now, according to the proxy.

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Left and right rarely meet in combat, preferring to fight their war by proxy: only 5% of their victims, it is reckoned, actually die with a gun in their hands.

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Pirate Party UK - which is not affiliated with The Pirate Bay - said it created the proxy website as an act of "freedom of expression" and to support "the right to share information and ideas without interference and that censorship is never the right answer".

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The measure's supporters say that proxy votes are the most direct way to influence corporate governance, and that investors have the right to know whether a fund manager has voted in their best interests.

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