The proprietor is able to create a leadership impossible in the corporate structure with its board of directors and stockholders.

Interest rates are determined by the board of directors of the bank with the approval of the Farm Credit Administration.

It is a truism of business that no business can be better than its board of directors and its top management.

-- Three positions on the Oak Lodge Water district board of directors have attracted 11 candidates.

J. A. W. Iglehart, chairman of the Oriole board of directors, and Public Relations Director Jack Dunn.

Elected to the board of directors were:

She now serves on the board of directors of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Theater Center and on the board of trustees of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.

In addition to representing persons and organizations in lawsuits, the ACLU lobbies for policies that have been established by its board of directors.

The executive officer acts as chairman of the ACLU's board of directors, and is responsible for fundraising and facilitating policy-setting.

The board of directors consists of 80 persons, including representatives from each state affiliate, as well as at-large delegates.

In order to further grow the club's budget, the AZ board of directors has decided to extend the capacity of the new stadium to a minimum of 30, 000 seated spectators somewhere in the near future.

Former CEO Dale Fuller was fired in July 2005 after a series of financial and commercial blunders, but remained on the board of directors.

He next accepted a post as a director with Wigan Athletic, then became a member of Manchester United's board of directors in 1984 and remains one as of June 2011.

Apple's board of directors decided NeXTSTEP was a better choice and purchased NeXT in 1996 for $ 429 million, bringing back Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization.

The directors of an organization are the persons who are members of its board.

Outside directors bring outside experience and perspective to the board.

Outside directors are often useful in handling disputes between inside directors, or between shareholders and the board.

Individual directors often serve on more than one board.

The role and responsibilities of a board of directors vary depending on the nature and type of business entity and the laws applying to the entity ( see types of business entity ).

Theoretically, the control of a company is divided between two bodies: the board of directors, and the shareholders in general meeting.

Another feature of boards of directors in large public companies is that the board tends to have more de facto power.

Many shareholders grant proxies to the directors to vote their shares at general meetings and accept all recommendations of the board rather than try to get involved in management, since each shareholder's power, as well as interest and information is so small.

In the report, Laverty observes that: " The entire board of directors the Permanent Commission, are members of or closely identify with the ' Nicaraguan Democratic Coordinating Committee ' ( Coordinadora ), an alliance of the more rightwing parties and COSEP, the business organization.

Feith also served on the board of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs ( JINSA ), a think tank that promotes a military and strategic alliance between the United States and Israel.

Shortly thereafter, Flair, Blanchard, and the Andersons formalized their alliance, calling themselves the Four Horsemen, with Blanchard's manager J. J. Dillon also coming on board.

The regiments of the Bar Confederation, whose executive board had been forced to leave Austria ( which previously supported them ) after that country joined the Prusso-Russian alliance, did not lay down their arms.

When Royce runs the story, Callahan extorts the paper's board of directors into firing Spider, who by that point has already formed an alliance to have his future stories published by " The Hole ".

* 7 – The Orange County, California, school board votes unanimously to reject the formation of a gay-straight alliance at El Modena High School.

He is also on the board of C-Change, a philanthropic alliance of organizations fighting cancer that was founded by George H. W.

Benefiting from a close alliance with the administrations of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, Moyano has leveraged his capacity as head of the Council on Salaries ( an officially-sanctioned advisory board ) to secure a stronger collective bargaining position and frequent increases in the minimum wage.

It proposed an alliance with the Free Congregations, which had formed themselves by secession from the Protestant churches, and the election of a joint executive committee from both denominations, which was to act as a presiding board until the meeting of a triennial diet, which was appointed for 1852, but it did not meet.

Like many online turn-based board games, Lux includes a chat capability, allowing conversation, tactical discussions, offers of alliance, etc., and some players use this as a political tool in their play to great advantage.

For the board is a small circlet holder with colored flags to remind players which countries are in alliance.

To avoid excessive flexing of the motherboard during this action the chassis and motherboard had to be designed with good, relatively closely spaced supports for the motherboard, which was not always the case, and the person inserting the board had to distribute the downward force evenly across its top edge.

It is possible to build a board that supports all of these bus widths and will interoperate with boards that only support a subset.

; Stringer, Stringer board or sometimes just String: The structural member that supports the treads and risers.

He supports the legalization of marijuana and same-sex marriage, and serves on the board of PETA.

The three main groups he supports with his donations are the The Doe Fund, the Central Park Conservancy ( on whose board he sits ), and Student Sponsor Partners ( SSP ), which partners low-income high school students with donors who mentor the students and pay tuition for the students to attend private school ( usually Catholic schools ), which Stossel says have higher graduation rates than public schools.

Some riders use extensively modified snowmobiles, customized with aftermarket accessories such as handle bar risers, handguards, custom / lightweight hoods, windshields, and seats, running board supports, studs, and numerous other modifications that increase power and maneuverability.

In 2008, Chafee joined the advisory board of J Street, a lobbying group that promotes diplomatic relations between Israel and its neighbors, and supports an independent Palestinian state.

* Kraumur Music Fund, supports Icelandic artists, Björk and Kjartan Sveinsson of Sigur Rós are board members ( in English )

He remains on the Free Press board and actively supports the group's work.

Other manufacturers saw the potential of the form factor and followed suit, some even not limiting themselves to the Atom, as evidenced by Zotac GeForce 9300-ITX board that supports Core 2 Duo CPUs with FSB frequencies up to 1333 MHz, two separate-channeled 800 MHz memory slots and fully functional PCI Express 2. 0 x16 slot that could connect through SLI to the onboard video.

White, who practices law, is chairman of the board for the Houston Independent School District Foundation, a non-profit organization which supports the public schools.

Meteosat also supports the retransmission of data from data collection platforms in remote locations, at sea and on board aircraft, as well as the dissemination of meteorological information in graphical and text formats.

To prevent further injury, unnecessary movement of the spine is minimized by securing the neck with a cervical collar, and the back with a long spine board with head supports.

In January 2009 he was named chair of the board of trustees for Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization that supports the expansion of freedom around the world.

On the two ends, between the long board and the supports, corn husks are placed for vibration.

It also supports the EXB-DI " Digital Interface " board providing ADAT output and Word Clock, or EXB-mLAN option featuring mLAN output.

Scardina is a board member of the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund, which supports conservation education, habitat protection, species research and animal rescue and rehabilitation around the globe.

While the board sizes have to be 6 × 6, 8 × 8, 10 × 8, 10 × 10 or 12 × 8 and the pieces in a custom variant have to be chosen from a limited list, this allows ChessV to play hundreds or thousands of variants of each game it directly supports.

Earl is also on the board of the Joyce Foundation, a non-profit based in Chicago that supports efforts to protect the natural environment of the Great Lakes, to reduce poverty and violence in the region, and to ensure that its people have access to good schools, decent jobs, and a diverse and thriving culture.

When slip sheets are supported by a pallet board, roller conveyor surface, flat load carrying surface, or a cart or lift truck, the structural strength of the slip sheet supports the product load's weight.

In September 2007, she was appointed to the board of directors of BioCrossroads, Indiana's initiative to grow the life sciences through a public-private collaboration that supports the region's research and corporate strengths while encouraging new business development.

Reid also serves on the board of directors of the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society ( IMPACS ), a nonprofit group which supports " free, open and accountable media " internationally.

The Bundesliga is represented by an acting executive committee, which supports a supervisory board.

Creative New Zealand supports Māori arts through its Arts Board and Te Waka Toi board, which provide funding for Māori artists and organisations.