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 its ruling, the state Board of Education upheld Dr. Michael F. Walsh, state commissioner of education, who had ruled previously that the Warwick board erred when it named Maurice F. Tougas as coordinator of audio-visual education without first finding that the school superintendent's candidate was not suitable.

The draft board ruled that his draft status should not have been changed.

After five days of processing, the entire family was set to board for the U. S. on May 30, 1980, when, mere hours before they did so, government officials ruled that his four older brothers and older sister were too close to the draft age and had to remain.

The typical military dictatorship in Latin America was ruled by a junta ( derived from a Spanish word which can be translated as " conference " or " board "), or a committee composed of several officers, often from the military's most senior leadership, but in other cases less senior, as evidenced by the term colonels ' regime, where the military leaders remained loyal to the previous regime.

Outraged at Breen's " unwarranted and unjustified attack " on " a harmless story ," the director joined forces with UA executives to appeal the decision with the Motion Picture Association of America board of directors, who ruled against them.

In March 2008, the Nampa, Idaho public library board ruled in favor of removing The Joy of Sex and The Joy of Gay Sex from the libraries ' shelves, making them only available upon request in the library director's office.

Two players play on a board ruled into a grid of 5 ranks ( rows ) by 5 files ( columns ).

On March 21, 1914, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that the Commodore, and not the Methodist Church, was the university's founder and that the board could therefore seat whomever it wished.

Before the company moved to Arizona from Riverside, California in 1994, it became a center of controversy when a county coroner ruled that Alcor client Dora Kent ( Alcor board member Saul Kent's mother ) was murdered with barbiturates before her head was removed for neuropreservation by the company's staff.

On November 3, 2008, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that the decision of a patent appeals board to deny XANGO's patent application would still stand.

Although the Fusionist-dominated state " returning board ", which ruled on validity of votes, at first declared John McEnery and his Democratic slate the winners, the board split.

Maryland abandoned its board in the 1980s, and a 2004 decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal, reversing a previous trend in favor of the Ontario Film Classification Board's right to insist on cuts, ruled that the province had no right to insist on cuts as a condition of release in view of the fact that Canadian federal obscenity laws were sufficient to deal with obscene material.

The Black Path Game is played on a board ruled into squares.

As a school board member, he participated in desegregating the Amphitheater School District before the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education.

At a meeting in New York, the board ruled that for the next ten days, the Pennsylvania State League could claim Allentown's players.

An RAF board of inquiry in 1995 ruled that the cause was pilot error ; on 13 July 2011 a new report cleared both pilots.

An NLRB Administrative Law Judge ruled that the union and the board provided ample explanation of the election in a variety of languages.

Two players, Black and White ( or 先手 sente and 後手 gote ), play on a board ruled into a grid of 7 ranks ( rows ) by 7 files ( columns ).

He was one of the military in the joint military board that ruled Brazil between the illness of Artur da Costa e Silva in August 1969 and the investiture ceremony of Emílio Garrastazú Médici in October of that same year.

Melo was one of the military in the joint military board that ruled Brazil between the illness of Artur da Costa e Silva in August 1969 and the investiture ceremony of Emílio Garrastazú Médici in October of that same year.

The Dragon Empire is a huge bureaucracy, ruled over by the ten houses of dragons, five chromatic and five metallic, led by Mezzenbone, a red dragon of immense might and evil disposition, who sometimes travels on board The Maleficant, one of the few remaining immense Dreadnought class warship spacecraft.

The court ruled that the selection process for the board does " serve important governmental objective " and is " substantially related to the achievement of those objectives ".

Until its demise on 31 May 1919, the board ruled on 1, 245 cases.