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DINING
HP Shareholders Canât Decide Whether They Want Pizza or Chinese for Dinner
Hewlett-Packard shareholders, engaged in a marathon contest to approve or reject a proposed merger with rival computer maker Compaq, are still not able to reach a consensus on whether they should order pizza or Chinese tonight for dinner.
As the vote nears its conclusion, HP Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina has spent the better part of the afternoon trying to lobby a clear majority of the companyâs more than 100,000 shareholders to agree on Chinese food .
(The deal would land the
nearby Pearl Garden Chinese restaurant with 75,000 orders of sweet and sour pork, 120,000 bowls of won ton soup and 25,000 barbecued ducks.)
However, a recent tabulation suggests that Fiorina might have to pull out of that deal, and it is looking more and more like the HP shareholders may choose the 60,000 large pizzas with Canadian bacon and pineapple demanded by the company's institutional investors.
Nevertheless, some shareholders are still not satisfied with the proposed pizza deal and may want to have extra tomato sauce on their pizzas.
"Extra âto-may-toâ sauce?" asked Fiorina quizzically when told of the request.
"No, extra âto-mah-toâ sauce," responded a member from the group of rebellious shareholders.
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