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4
Voting Proposals
Shareholders will vote on the following items at the annual meeting:
Agenda
Item
Management
recommendation
Vote required to
pass
Item 1 Elect the following nominees for director to serve a three-year
term that will expire in 2017:
Vote FOR all Majority of
votes cast
Name and principal occupation Joined the
Board
Age Public boards
Michael L. Eskew 2008 64
3M Corp.
Vote FOR
Former Chairman and CEO - UPS IBM Corp.
UPS, Inc.
Karen N. Horn, Ph.D.
1987 70
T. Rowe Price Mutual Funds
Vote FOR
Retired President, Private Client
Services, and Managing Director -
Marsh, Inc.
Simon Property Group, Inc.
Norfolk Southern Corp.
William G. Kaelin, Jr.
2012 56 None Vote FOR
Professor, Department of Medicine and
Associate Director, Basic Science -
Dana-Farber/ Harvard Cancer Center
John C. Lechleiter, Ph.D. 2005 60
Nike, Inc.
Vote FOR
Chairman, President, and CEO - Eli Lilly
and Company Ford Motor Company
Marschall S. Runge
2013 59 None Vote FOR
Executive Dean for the School of
Medicine at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Item 2 Ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the
company's principal independent auditor for 2014.
Vote FOR Majority of
votes cast
Item 3 Approve, by non-binding vote, compensation paid to the
company's named executive officers.
Vote FOR Majority of
votes cast
Our Corporate Governance Policies Reflect Best Practices
Board membership marked by leadership, experience, and diversity
All 15 of our nonemployee directors are independent
Strong, independent lead director role
All board committees are fully independent
Executive sessions are held at every regularly-scheduled board meeting
Active board participation in company strategy and CEO succession planning
Board oversight of compliance and enterprise risk management practices
Meaningful director stock ownership guidelines
Majority voting standard and resignation policy for the election of directors