For publicly-traded companies in the U. S., the directors which are available to vote on are largely selected by either the board as a whole or a nominating committee.

Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 required U. S. publicly-traded corporations to utilize a control framework in their internal control assessments.

In practice for publicly-traded companies, the managers ( inside directors ) who are purportedly accountable to the board of directors have historically played a major role in selecting and nominating the directors who are voted on by the shareholders, in which case more " gray outsider directors " ( independent directors with conflicts of interest ) are nominated and elected.

The circular is a re-examination of the existing internal control requirements for federal agencies and was initiated in light of the new internal control requirements for publicly-traded companies contained in the Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002.

The corporation became a publicly-traded company under the symbol BYS on the American Stock Exchange in 1963, and later moved to the New York Stock Exchange under the same symbol in 1978.

The film Other People's Money provides contrasting views of creative destruction, presented in two speeches regarding the takeover of a publicly-traded wire and cable company in a small New England town.

* Gerald J. Ford, most recently the Chairman of the Trustees of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and former Chairman and CEO of the once NYSE publicly-traded company Liberate Investors, and former Chairman and CEO of the California-based Golden State Bancorp ( sold to Citigroup in 2002 for $ 6. 1 billion ), is a graduate of Pampa High School and Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Council – manager government is much like a publicly-traded corporation.

Examples might include income-oriented real estate, preferred shares, and even most forms of publicly-traded stocks.

In May 1995 Coors became the 21st publicly-traded corporation in the United States to extend employee benefits to same-sex partners.

On April 2, 2007, Chicago investor Sam Zell announced plans to purchase the Tribune Company, with intentions to take the publicly-traded firm private.

For publicly-traded companies, external auditors may also be required to express an opinion over the effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting.

For publicly-traded companies, external auditors may also be required to express an opinion over the effectiveness of internal controls over Cost reporting.

Though internal auditors are not considered independent of the company they perform audit procedures for, internal auditors of publicly-traded companies are required to report directly to the board of directors, or a sub-committee of the board of directors, and not to management, so to reduce the risk that internal auditors will be pressured to produce favorable assessments.

In 1998, Hoechst combined most of its industrial chemical operations in a new company, Celanese AG, and, in 1999, Hoechst spun off Celanese AG as a publicly-traded, German corporation, traded on both the Frankfurt and New York stock exchanges.

Many US states have adopted the Model Business Corporation Act, but the dominant state law for publicly-traded corporations is Delaware, which continues to be the place of incorporation for the majority of publicly-traded corporations.

A study of 342 US protests covered by the New York Times newspaper in the period 1962 and 1990 showed that such public activities usually had an impact on the company's publicly-traded stock price.

Imasco was publicly-traded, although it was controlled by British American Tobacco.

* Motion Picture Distribution, including its publicly-traded income fund, was acquired by Canadian-based EdgeStone Capital Partners and GS Capital Partners.

As customary for a publicly-traded company, BIIB is also overseen by a board of directors that votes on important company decisions.

" The CSRC is empowered to issue Opinions or Guideline Opinions, non-legally binding guidance for publicly-traded corporations.

DKNY became a publicly-traded venture in 1996, and 2001, was purchased by French corporation Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey.

The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act includes in its provisions a mandate for shareholder votes on any future adoption of a golden parachute by publicly-traded firms.

Younkers was operated by the Equitable of Iowa insurance company from 1979 to 1992 after being a publicly-traded company since 1948.

WBC was publicly-traded for a time but was later reacquired by Griffiths's family.

At the height of the Cold War, when the US Atomic Energy Commission was desperately seeking sources of uranium for the production of atomic weapons, John Roosevelt became an officer and director of the Standard Uranium Company, reportedly the first and most successful publicly-traded uranium corporation, which registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission in early 1954 and soon attracted heavy investments by industrialist Floyd Odlum, one of the wealthiest men in America.

In August 2007 the then publicly-traded company was purchased for US $ 38 million by a group of investors led by C. Stephen Lynn, the former Chairman of Shoney's who also previously served as Sonic's Chief Executive Officer, and Reid M. Zeising of Cherokee Advisors.

Today, the chain is still family-operated ( though it is publicly-traded on the OTCBB market having both Class A and Class B common stock shares, according to a 2011 SEC proxy filing over 90 percent of the Class A stock is held by Belk family interests ) and currently has 306 stores in 19 states, particularly in the Carolinas, along with the Atlanta and Birmingham metro areas.

Reluctant to forfeit this control by becoming a publicly-traded company, the Camp family looked for other avenues.

* Seasoned equity offering, a new equity issue by an already publicly-traded company

Like Jack, Polk is furious about what Maggad has done to his newspaper, and now holds a position of power, because he owns a large number of shares in Maggad ’ s publicly-traded company, which Maggad is desperate to buy back before two foreign companies initiate a hostile takeover.

* 2001-Nasdaq trading symbol for the company's publicly-traded common stock is changed from OMGA to TRAD.

Most would argue that the main purpose of a business is to maximize profits for its owners, or in the case of a publicly-traded company, its stockholders.

The CMA assesses competency of internally-focused accounting skills and is appropriate for professionals working in large, small, publicly-traded and privately-held enterprises, not-for-profit organizations, academia, and government.

* AMED ( NASDAQ ), the market abbreviation for Amedisys, a publicly-traded home health and hospice care company in the United States

The efficient market hypothesis assumes that whenever mispricing of a publicly-traded stock occurs, an opportunity for low-risk profit is created for rational traders.

Circular A-123 is a re-examination of the existing internal control requirements for Federal agencies and was initiated in light of the new internal control requirements for publicly-traded companies contained in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

The company is publicly-traded ( JASDAQ: 4755 ).

The appointment of U Thant of Burma as the U.N.'s Acting Secretary General -- at this writing, the choice appears to be certain -- offers further proof that in politics it is more important to have no influential enemies than to have influential friends.

With the neutralists maintaining pressure for one of their own to succeed Mr. Hammarskjold, U Thant emerged as the only possible candidate unlikely to be waylaid by a veto.

U Thant of course, will hold office until the spring of 1963, when Mr. Hammarskjold's term would have come to an end.

the West may or not remain satisfied with the kind of neutralism that U Thant represents.

If Af are the projections associated with the primary decomposition of T, then each Af is a polynomial in T, and accordingly if a linear operator U commutes with T then U commutes with each of the Af, i.e., each subspace Af is invariant under U.

Near Q, both curves can be represented by analytic functions of U.

In a neighborhood of Q the difference between these functions is also a single-valued, analytic function of U.

The restrained gyro-stabilized platform with reasonable response characteristics operates with an approximate equation of motion, neglecting transient effects, as follows: Af where U is a torque applied about the output axis of the controlling gyro.

Lincoln's assassination was the first assassination of a U. S. president and sent the nation into mourning.

Lincoln has been consistently ranked by scholars and the public as one of the three greatest U. S. presidents.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

Lincoln also supported the Wilmot Proviso, which, if it had been adopted, would have banned slavery in any U. S. territory won from Mexico.

Lincoln disapproved of slavery, and the spread of slavery to new U. S. territory in the west.