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November 4, 2010—Here at footnoted, we don't spend a lot of time thinking about black lung disease, the all-too-descriptive and debilitating affliction of ...

August 2, 2010—The quarterly report that Comverge, Inc. (COMV) filed July 30 left us hoping that the company's attorneys, accountants, and especially Steve Moffitt, its Executive Vice-President of Engineering and Operations, all have good senses of humor. We chuckled at ...

June 11, 2010—Earlier this week, MFA Financial, Inc. (MFA), a real estate investment trust that invests in residential mortgage-backed securities (on a leveraged basis, its website notes), amended the employment agreement with Stewart Zimmerman, its Chairman of the Board/CEO. The ...

April 16, 2010—When it's time to make executive compensation decisions, companies seek input from several sources. Those usually include the Compensation committee, the executives themselves, and outside consulting companies that specialize in researching what other executives at the ubiquitous —peer companies earn. But Comp committees ...

April 5, 2010—The long weekend brought a bounty of riches to the footnoted table: some amusing, some intriguing, some just odd. Rather than focus on just one, we decided to take a quick spin through a few of the more unusual: Risky eating -- The ...

March 26, 2010—In Round 2 of —Duking it Out in the Boardroom, we focus on the directors' spat at Ohio-based Myers Industries, Inc. (MYE). Founded in 1933, the company has grown into what it now describes as —an international manufacturer of polymer products ...

March 25, 2010—It's inevitable that a company's directors are going to disagree from time to time. But rarely do those spats play out as publicly as some that we—ve seen recently. (In the interest of keeping this post at a reasonable length, we—ll ...

February 16, 2010—Instead of nibbling on chocolates or checking out the President's Day sales last weekend, the footnoted staff settled in at our computers with a nice long list of SEC filings. While the second pot of coffee brewed, we found this 8-K that Armstrong World ...

February 4, 2010—If you read enough SEC filings, you begin to recognize certain sections like they're old friends. You might think, —Oh! There's the section on Executive Compensation Discussion & Analysis! or —Hi, Forward-Looking Statements. How are the Risk Factors looking today? But occasionally — ...