Therefore, when a merger with a controlling stockholder was: 1 ) negotiated and approved by a special committee of independent directors ; and 2 ) conditioned on an affirmative vote of a majority of the minority stockholders, the business judgment standard of review should presumptively apply, and any plaintiff ought to have to plead particularized facts that, if true, support an inference that, despite the facially fair process, the merger was tainted because of fiduciary wrongdoing .″

Boggs ' Congressional committee in turn quickly approved the NFL merger.

Until then, Congress decided that a committee should prepare a document announcing and explaining independence in the event that Lee's resolution was approved when it was brought up again in July.

The remaining nine delegations voted in favor of independence, which meant that the resolution had been approved by the committee of the whole.

Members of the program committee point to its being a version of a proposal approved in 2001.

In June 1938, Typex Mark II was demonstrated to the cipher-machine committee, who approved an order of 350 machines.

The numbering scheme follows that of the International Numbering System ( INS ) as determined by the Codex Alimentarius committee though only a subset of the INS additives are approved for use in the European Union as food additives.

Recommendations for the £ 400 million project have been approved, and planning approval was given by Slough Borough Council's planning committee on 9 July 2009.

Waiver of the consent requirement may be applied in certain circumstances where no foreseeable harm is expected to result from the study or when permitted by law, federal regulations, or if an ethical review committee has approved the non-disclosure of certain information.

Gilbert was one of the first celebrity architects in America, designing skyscrapers in New York City and Cincinnati, campus buildings at Oberlin College and the University of Texas, state capitols in Minnesota and West Virginia, the support towers of the George Washington Bridge, various railroad stations ( including the New Haven Union Station ), and the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D. C .. His reputation declined among some professionals during the age of Modernism, but he was on the design committee that guided and eventually approved the modernist design of Manhattan's groundbreaking Rockefeller Center: when considering Gilbert's body of works as whole, it is more eclectic than many critics admit.

There was considerable acrimony between the two very high-profile senators during the life of this committee, which reached a level of public disagreement between the five leaders of a congressional committee seldom seen in recent years, amid allegations that Glenn suppressed these issues prior to his subsequent space shuttle flight which had to be approved by President Clinton.

Somervell met Groves outside the hearing room where Groves had been testifying before a United States Congress committee on military housing and informed him that " The Secretary of War has selected you for a very important assignment, and the President has approved the selection ...

Each museum had its own director, and all plans were to be approved by a Whitney committee.

In 1998 South Africa passed the " Foreign Military Assistance Act " that banned citizens and residents from any involvement in foreign wars, except in humanitarian operations, unless a government committee approved its deployment.

C. Ruggles Smith, desperate for a way to save something of Middlesex University, learned of a New York committee headed by Goldstein that was seeking a campus to establish a Jewish-sponsored secular university, and approached Goldstein with a proposal to give the Middlesex campus and charter to Goldstein's committee, in the hope that his committee might " possess the apparent ability to reestablish the School of Medicine on an approved basis.

He earned high scores on the required examination, and the selection committee approved his enrollment at a preparatory school in Maryland.

It houses exhibits on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway and was named for former U. S. Representative from Alabama Tom Bevill, who chaired the congressional committee that approved funding for the waterway project.

A new border-crossing service, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link, has been approved and has been granted HKD 6. 6 billion in funding by the Hong Kong Legco finance committee.

Since kibbutzniks had no individual bank accounts, any purchase not made at the kibbutz canteen had to be approved by a committee, a potentially humiliating and time-wasting experience.

On October 11, 2006, the Marshall Public Library Board of Trustees appointed a committee to create a materials selection policy, and removed Fun Home and Blankets from circulation until the new policy was approved.

The sessions ends with a General Assembly, in which the committee resolutions are looked through, altered and approved ( or if the resolution is found unacceptable, not approved ).

There are 2 competing standards for DMT ADSL-ANSI & G. DMT ; ANSI T1. 413 is a North American standard, G. 992. 1 ( G. DMT ) is an ITU ( United Nations Telecom committee ) standard.

One account says that the only prizes awarded by the executive committee were bronze medals, in recognition of " some independent and essential excellence in the article displayed ," rather than " merely to indicate the relative merits of competing exhibits.

A conference committee is a temporary joint committee formed to resolve differences between competing House and Senate versions of a measure.

Given the smaller size of the senate, there are fewer members competing for committee and subcommittee assignments.

The SPEC operated until May 1999, when internal disagreements over ideology and strategy, exacerbated by personal animosities among some members of the committee, led to the fracture of the SPEC into two competing factions.

There was considerable debate about the competing merits of the two possible sites, and Forwood's committee was inclined to favour the London Road triangle.

The Black Hand was organized at the grassroots level in 3-to 5-member cells, supervised by district committees and by a Central committee in Belgrade whose ten-member Executive Committee was led, more or less, by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević ( also known as Apis ).

The price quoted by Eiffel was FF. 965, 000, far below the nearest competitor and so he was given the job, although since his company was less experienced than his rivals the Portuguese authorities appointed a committee to report on Eiffel et Cie's suitability.

Controversies surrounded not only the suspicions of Leung's own conflict of interest, but also of the insensitivity of the committee which recommended the approval for him to take up his lucrative new job less than two years after his official retirement.

As a British newspaper put it, " the committee, in recommending this new sword bayonet, appear to have had in view the fact that bayonets will henceforth be less frequently used than in former times as a weapon of offence and defence ; they desired, therefore, to substitute an instrument of more general utility.

The committee reported a total cost of US $ 1. 183 million with receipts of US $ 1. 165 million for a loss of US $ 18, 000-much less than that of the previous Games.

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.

Although there have been many changes since the Cabinet committee system was first developed in the early twentieth century, the committees for foreign and military policy, domestic policy, economic policy, and the government's legislative agenda have been more or less permanent fixtures.

He acquired a great reputation as a lawyer, less by practice in the courts than in a consultative capacity, and served the ancien régime as member of a committee to revise the civil and criminal laws of the kingdom.

The rural committee was politically significant until the establishment of a District Council and Regional Council ( now-abolished ), and even less significant since the urban population grew much larger than the rural population.

The Republican vote was split in the general election, largely over local dissatisfaction with Watkins ' having chaired the committee that censured Senator Joseph McCarthy, and Moss won election with less than 40 percent of the vote.

Professor Leonard E. Berman of Syracuse University testified to a U. S. Senate committee in July 2010 that: " My guess is that if President Bush had announced a new war surtax to pay for Iraq or an increase in the Medicare payroll tax rate to pay for the prescription drug benefit, both initiatives would have been less popular.

" Under questioning from committee member Jay Inslee Inhofe dismissed the notion that he was less knowledgeable than climate scientists, saying that he ’ d already given “ five speeches on the science .” His testimony included mention of a book of his which he claimed was forthcoming, saying, " I won ’ t tell you what it ’ s about, but it ’ s titled The Hoax.

At that stage, " the RAF was probably less hierarchical than Yorkshire County Cricket Club, and he coped with the vagaries of service life rather better than he did with the Yorkshire committee ".

There had already been a less formally instituted cardinal committee concerned with propaganda fide since the time of Pope Gregory XIII ( 1572 – 1585 ), who were especially charged with promoting the union with Rome of the long-established eastern Christian communities: Slavs, Greeks, Syrians, Egyptians, and Abyssinians.

The committee tends to be less partisan than other committees or the House overall.

At that point any sort of upper stage was fair game, and " If these propellants are to be accepted for the difficult top-stage applications ," the committee concluded, " there seem to be no valid engineering reasons for not accepting the use of high-energy propellants for the less difficult application to intermediate stages.

The chart also omits committee staff and a number of job titles that could not easily be classified or had less than 50 people.

The U. S. Senate Committee on Finance ( or, less formally, Senate Finance Committee ) is a standing committee of the United States Senate.

The AFL's reception was tepid: it endorsed a special conference to create a committee to organize steel workers, but each international union contributed only one hundred dollars apiece — leaving the committee with somewhat less than the $ 250, 000 Foster estimated it needed.

Ichirō Ozawa, however, whose resignation had also been reported announced by Hatoyama, was still supporting another less well known possible successor, Shinji Tarutoko, 50, a legislator who leads the environmental policy committee in the lower house of Parliament, a day before the DPJ leadership elections.

However, it was less successful on the canal and was rejected by the committee.

In order to meet the requirements of antitrust laws, producers must constitute less than 50 % of every committee or subcommittee, and votes are limited to one per producer company.

From its beginning, the committee received petitions and memorials from various individuals or groups seeking protection for their particular industry, as well as a few from agricultural interests, such as those from various agricultural societies of Virginia, seeking less tariff protection ( 17th ).