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Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
The Annual Meeting of Share Owners was held on Wednesday, April 17, 1996, in Wilmington, Delaware, at which, prior to giving effect to the two-for-one stock split, several matters were submitted to a vote of the share owners:
(a) Votes cast for or withheld regarding the re-election of
four Directors for a term expiring in 1999 were as
follows:
FOR WITHHELD
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Cathleen P. Black 1,106,738,202 9,262,978
Warren E. Buffett 1,108,016,241 7,984,939
M. Douglas Ivester 1,108,047,603 7,953,577
Susan B. King 1,107,954,988 8,046,192
Additional Directors, whose terms of office as
Directors continued after the meeting, are as follows:
Term expiring in 1997 Term expiring in 1998
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Ronald W. Allen Herbert A. Allen
Donald F. McHenry Charles W. Duncan, Jr.
Paul F. Oreffice Roberto C. Goizueta
James B. Williams James D. Robinson III
Peter V. Ueberroth
(b) Votes cast for or against and the number of abstentions
regarding each other matter voted upon at the meeting
were as follows:
BROKER
DESCRIPTION OF MATTER FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN NON-VOTES
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Proposal to amend Article
Fourth of the Certificate of
Incorporation to increase the
authorized Common Stock of
the Company from 2.8 billion
shares, par value $.25 per
share, to 5.6 billion shares,
par value $.25 per share, and
to effect a split of the
issued Common Stock of the
Company by changing each
issued share of Common Stock
into two shares of Common
Stock 1,109,539,773 2,215,482 4,245,925 0
Ratification of the
appointment of Ernst & Young
LLP as independent auditors
of the Company to serve
for the 1996 fiscal year 1,112,071,379 1,557,028 2,372,773 0