Moorestown, N.J., Stockholders Try to Stop Executive Bonuses at Coke.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: March 14, 2000| Author: Ress, David | Copyright information

Mar. 12--Bob and Mary Morse like to play cards -- but Bob doesn't like the way the executives of the companies in which the couple owns shares seem to hold all the cards.

For about a dozen years, he has been on a campaign to rein in the multimillion-dollar bonuses and stock options corporate boards have been awarding senior management.

The latest salvo: asking Coca-Cola Co. stockholders to kill bonuses, options and stock grants to executives as well as the kin...

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