11.   Eleven top Yamaichi executives resigned last month to take responsibility for the scandal.

12.   Executives have resigned, and an effort to keep the plans secret has inspired a battle of competing leaks.

13.   Executives have resigned, board meetings have nearly ended in fisticuffs, and an effort to keep the plans secret has inspired a battle of competing leaks.

14.   Five senior executives have resigned at the phone company since Ami Erel was named chief executive in April.

15.   Four other senior CUC executives resigned after the disclosures.

16.   Hilton was awarded a preliminary license today, shortly after Hilton Chief Executive Stephen Bollenbach told the Missouri Gaming Commission that the executives resigned.

17.   Hilton Hotels Corp. said it received a preliminary gambling license for its Kansas City, Missouri, riverboat and also announced that three senior executives resigned.

18.   In Japan, top executives traditionally resign in the wake of major scandals even if they are not directly involved.

19.   Morrison Knudsen Corp. said Chief Financial Officer Denis Slavich and two other executives resigned.

20.   On Friday, NatWest said six executives resigned on the grounds that they shared responsibility for the derivatives loss.