1.   Berrard ruled out the possibility of making a bid for Waste Management Inc., whose chairman resigned unexpectedly.

2.   British Gas Plc was the most active stock in the U.K. after the company announced it will break into two separate units and said its chairman will resign.

3.   It had suspended operations and its Russian chairman had resigned.

4.   The German architectural firm loses the contract for the palace, and its chairman resigns.

5.   When the chairman subsequently resigned, Castaldi joined a triumvirate that managed the Queens party for nearly a year.

6.   Controversy struck the five-member appeals court Monday when its chairman resigned, citing a conflict of interest.

7.   Dresdner Bank said Tuesday that its supervisory board chairman is resigning after coming under investigation for alleged tax evasion.

8.   The past two chairmen have both resigned following electoral defeats, and newspapers speculated Lin may have felt pressured into abiding by that established practice.

9.   If both chairman resigned along with the president, the consistency of management would be lost, Jiji press quoted a Daiwa executive as saying.

10.   Major Japanese oil distributor Mitsubishi Oil Co. Ltd. said Friday its chairman would resign to take blame for shady deals with a dealer charged with bribery and tax evasion.