Reminders of spring

Coupled with this morning's wet, slushy snow, the Times' article on Saturday about the shareholder proposals that nuns are preparing for shareholder meetings serves as a reminder that spring -- and the shareholder-meeting season -- is around the corner. This time I'm going to keep a closer eye out for reports of shareholder meetings in Germany, where attendance at the meetings of the biggest companies can reach phenomenal numbers (in the 10,000s). What a contrast with the U.S. (with the lone exception, to my knowledge, of Warren Buffett's meetings).

Leslie Wayne, "Shareholders Who Answer to a Higher C.E.O," New York Times, 2/19/05, B: 1-2.