DiNapoli, acting as trustee of the state pension fund, in November filed a shareholder resolution calling on the company to analyze whether it would reduce its long-term liability by removing contaminated sediment outside the current cleanup zone.

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But a group of government scientists reporting to the Exxon Valdez Trustee Council, a state and federal board that oversees restoration, have reached a different conclusion.

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Schneider, III, Chairman of the House Retirement Committee and an ex-officio trustee of the 13 state systems, invited us to testify at a March 21st hearing on pay to play practices involving investment consultants.

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Schneider, III, Chairman of the House Retirement Committee and an ex-officio trustee of the 13 state systems, invited me to testify at a March 21, 2004 hearing about unsavory practices involving investment advisers to public pension funds.

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In the closest precedent, when the Tories floated the Trustee Savings Bank in 1986, another company not quite owned by the state, the proceeds were returned to the bank.

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Kshetrimayum Onil, a trustee of Just Peace Foundation, a non-governmental organisation based in the state capital, Imphal, told the BBC that he sent an e-mail to Ripley's site about Ms Chanu's struggle in mid-March.

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He is a trustee on the board of Digjyoti, an educational trust that provides scholarships to needy students in the state of Orissa in India.

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The Uniform Trust Code provides some guidance when it states that any individual providing direction to a trustee is fiduciary per se. (Footnote 4) Contrast this with Alaska and Arizona, whose statutes state that a trust protector shall not be treated as a fiduciary unless the trust instrument provides for such treatment.

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