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

De Palma is often cited as a leading member of the New Hollywood generation of film directors, a distinct pedigree who either emerged from film schools or are overtly cine-literate.

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

Typical inside directors are:

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

In a publicly-held company, directors are elected to represent and are legally obligated to represent the interests of the owners of the company -- the shareholders / stockholders.

In small private companies, the directors and the shareholders are normally the same people, and thus there is no real division of power.

Inside directors are usually not paid for sitting on a board, but the duty is instead considered part of their larger job description.

Outside directors are usually paid for their services.

Under English law, successive versions of Table A have reinforced the norm that, unless the directors are acting contrary to the law or the provisions of the Articles, the powers of conducting the management and affairs of the company are vested in them.

If powers of management are vested in the directors, they and they alone can exercise these powers.

They cannot themselves usurp the powers which by the articles are vested in the directors any more than the directors can usurp the powers vested by the articles in the general body of shareholders.

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.

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.

Academics such as Bruce Jackson, critics such as Jay Cocks and Arthur Knight and directors such as King Vidor, Henry King, William Wyler and Howard Hawks were invited to the screening.

A paper titled Program and Addressing Structure in a Time-Sharing Environment by Bruce Arden, Bernard Galler, Frank Westervelt ( all associate directors at UM's academic Computing Center ), and Tom O ' Brian building upon some basic ideas developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) was published in January 1966.

During the late 1960s and 1970s an influx of government funding saw the development of a new generation of film makers telling distinctively Australian stories, including directors Peter Weir, George Miller and Bruce Beresford.

Current members of the board of directors of BMO are: Robert Astley, David Beatty, Robert Chevrier, George Cope, Bill Downe, Christine A. Edwards, Ronald Farmer, David A. Galloway, Harold Kvisle, Eva L. Kwok, Bruce H. Mitchell, Philip Orsino, Martha C. Piper, Robert Prichard, Jeremy Reitman, Guylaine Saucier, Don M. Wilson III, and Nancy Southern.

Other directors have included Augustus Long, Robert A. Lovett, Charles Wight from 1947, Benno Schmidt 1954-1997, Jean Mauzé, Robert W. Bruce III, Robert C. Hills, Paul W. Douglas 1981-1983 after serving on Freeport Minerals 1975-1981, Henry Kissinger 1988-1995, George Putnam, Mikhael Yosia and J. Taylor Wharton.

Current members of the board of directors of Imperial Oil are: Krystyna Hoeg, Bruce March, Jack Mintz, Robert Olsen, Roger Phillips, Paul Smith, Sheelagh Whittaker and Victor Young.

In 2001 Newland produced three animated films by two other directors ; Friday Night Idiot Box by Bruce Wilson, and Explodium and My Friend Max by Peter MacAdams.

CPI's board of directors includes Bruce A. Finzen ( chair ), Sheila Coronel ( vice-chair ), William Buzenberg, Christine Amanpour, Arianna Huffington, Craig Newmark, Gilbert Omenn, Frederic Seegal, Molly Bingham, Charles Eisendrath, Dan Emmett, Jennifer 8.

Bloom, Heyer and Kehler were replaced by managing directors Edward Levy and Bruce Spohler.

Seneca Capital nominated former railroad executive E. Hunter Harrison and former energy company executive Jeff D. Hunter for the Dynegy board of directors, challenging Bruce Williamson and David Biegler ( a Williamson ally ).

Members included saxophonists Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake, J. D. Parran, Hamiet Bluiett, and Luther Thomas ; trumpeters Baikida Carroll and Floyd LeFlore ; trombonist Joseph Bowie ; drummers Bensid Thigpen and Charles " Bobo " Shaw ; bassist Arzinia Richardson ; stage directors Malinke Robert Elliott, Vincent Terrell, and Muthal Naidoo ; poets Ajule ( Bruce ) Rutlin and Shirley LeFlore ; dancers Georgia Collins and Luisah Teish ; and painters Emilio Cruz and Oliver L. Jackson ( NOTE: while Jackson was not officially a member, he was deeply involved with BAG and is usually listed as a member ).

Bruce Dunlevie, a Benchmark Capital general partner, is on ServiceSource's board of directors.

There he worked with such directors as Atom Egoyan ( Sweet Hereafter, Ararat ), Don McKellar ( Childstar ), Bruce McDonald ( Picture Claire, Hard Core Logo ) and Paul Schrader ( Autofocus ).

Beside the James Bond series, Feirstein has also worked ( uncredited ) on screenplays for Will Smith, Bruce Willis, John Travolta, and Julia Roberts, along with the directors John Woo and John McTiernan.

Bruce served two years on NOW's board of directors, but later criticized the organization in one of her books.

She has also played characters in films for noted directors such as Jeremy Podeswa, Midi Onodera and Bruce LaBruce.

A broad spectrum of major shareholders vote their proxies in favor of the board of directors, assuring Bruce Wayne and his executives, control and influence of company decisions, policies, and operational procedures.

The founding members of the board of directors of Executive Jet Aviation Corporation ( EJA ) included Air Force generals Curtis E. LeMay and Paul Tibbetts, Washington lawyer and former military pilot Bruce Sundlun, and entertainers James Stewart and Arthur Godfrey among others, with retired Air Force Brigadier General Olbert F. (" Dick ") Lassiter as president and chairman of the board.

He made several films with fellow Filipino Exploitation actors Romano Kristoff, James Gaines, Mike Cohen, Bruce Baron, Ann Milhench, Gwendolyn Hung, Ronnie Patterson, and directors Teddy Page ( Teddy Chiu ) and John Gale ( Jun Gallardo ).

South Australia was at the forefront of this Australian film revival, with established directors Peter Weir and Bruce Beresford coming to Adelaide to make their films.

COMSAT began operations with its headquarters in Washington, DC, in 1962, with a six-person founding board of directors appointed by President John F. Kennedy, including: Leo D. Welch, Joseph V. Charyk, David M. Kennedy, George Killion, Leonard H. Marks, and Bruce Sundlun.

Many later figures were influenced by Lovecraft's works, including author and artist Clive Barker, prolific horror writer Stephen King, comics writers Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Mike Mignola, film directors John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, and Guillermo Del Toro, horror manga artist Junji Ito, and artist H. R. Giger.

The Radiology department is spearheaded by Dr Ronald L. Arenson who is a Alexander R. Margulis Distinguished Professor and also a part of Board of directors of RSNA ( Radiological Society of North America ).

Brook's vision of the play proved influential, and directors have gone further in presenting Lear as ( in the words of R. A. Foakes ) " a pathetic senior citizen trapped in a violent and hostile environment ".

Current members of the board of directors of Pfizer are: Michael S. Brown, M. Anthony Burns, Robert Burt, Don Cornwell, William H. Gray, Frances D. Fergusson, Constance Horner, William R. Howell, Stanley Ikenberry, Ian Read ( chairman ), George Lorch, John P. Mascotte, Dana Mead, Ruth J. Simmons, and William Steere.

Current members of the board of directors of Monsanto are: David L. Chicoine, president of South Dakota State University ; Hugh Grant, the president and CEO of Monsanto ; Arthur H. Harper, managing partner of GenNx360 Capital Partners ; Gwendolyn King, president of Podium Prose, a speakers bureau ; Laura K. Ipsen, senior VP and general manager of Connected Energy Networks at Cisco Systems, Inc., C. Steven McMillan, former chairman and CEO of the Sara Lee Corporation ; William U. Parfet, chief executive officer of MPI Research Inc .; Janice L. Fields, president of McDonald's USA ; George H. Poste, chief executive of Health Technology Networks ; and Jon R. Moeller, chief financial officer of The Procter & Gamble Company.

He also worked on multiple occasions with prominent directors: Henry Hathaway ( eight times ), Ray Enright ( seven ), Edwin R. Marin ( seven ), André de Toth ( six ), and most notably, his seven film collaborations with Budd Boetticher.

Depending on the style of vocal music that a person has trained in, the " talent buyers " that they seek out may be record company A & R representatives, opera or musical theater directors, choir directors, nightclub managers, or concert promoters.

These actions were formalized by the incorporation of Organic Reactions in Illinois on August 1, 1942, for educational and research purposes, with Roger Adams, Harold R. Snyder, Werner E. Bachmann, John R. Johnson, and Louis F. Fieser as directors, and by the appearance later that year of Volume 1.

Other directors were former President Gerald R. Ford, Jr., former U. S. Representative Barbara Jordan and the Odessa oil industrialist Bill Noël.

When UGG Assistant General Manager J. R. Murray found an interested buyer, Brownlee advised Murray against insisting on an intricate written sales contract for fear that the buyer would sense the directors ' concerns.

The annual High Trips were led by accomplished mountaineers ( some of them Sierra Club directors ), such as Francis P. Farquhar, Joseph Nisbet LeConte, Norman Clyde, Walter A. Starr, Jr., Jules Eichorn, Glen Dawson, Ansel Adams, and David R. Brower.

She was the founder, and served as the first chair of the board of directors, of the Betty Ford Center for substance abuse and addiction and is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal ( co-presentation with her husband, Gerald R. Ford, October 21, 1998 ) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom ( alone, presented 1991, by George H. W. Bush ).

Russell R. Dynes and E. L. Quarantelli, the founding directors of DRC, are Emeritus Professors.

Current members of the board of directors of the company are: William Bennett, Hugh J. Bolton, John Bragg, W. Edmund Clark, Wendy Dobson, Henry Ketcham, Pierre Lessard, Brian M. Levitt, Harold MacKay, Irene R. Miller, Nadir H. Mohamed, Roger Phillips, Wilbur Prezzano, William Ryan, Helen Sinclair, Carole Taylor and John Thompson.

Although the company has long been publicly owned, James R. Houghton, great-great-grandson of the founder, served as chairman of the board of directors from 2001 to 2007.

Richard H. Fink, a member of the boards of directors and President of the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation and the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation.

R. C. Boral, Harishchandra Bali, Pankaj Mullick, Anil Biswas, Naushad, Khawaja Khurshid Anwar and S. Rajeswara Rao were noteworthy music directors of the 1940s.

A. R. Rahman rose from fame in the Chennai film industry to become one of the most popular current music directors and has had a musical Bombay Dreams, playing in London and New York, and scored several projects outside India.

Don Ramón J. Fernández was elected president of the board of directors and Don Antonio Roxas y Gargollo, son of Don Antonio R. Roxas, was elected vice-president.

Don Eduardo Roxas, another son of Don Antonio R. Roxas, and Don Jacobo Zóbel were appointed directors.

Members of the last board of directors of Thomson were as follows: David K. R.

** R. R. M. Carpenter ( Robert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter, Sr .; 1877 – 1949 ), American executive and member of the board of directors of DuPont