21.   Compaq shareholders will vote Wednesday.

22.   Conrail Inc. shareholders should vote against a CSX Inc. proposal that would exempt CSX from Pennsylvania law and let it acquire Conrail, a shareholder consulting firm recommended.

23.   CS Holding, Zurich Insurance and Swiss Reinsurance backed a single registered share last year, while Winterthur Insurance shareholders will vote on the proposal next month.

24.   Conrail scheduled a vote on such a waiver for Monday, but threatened to postpone the meeting unless it was confident shareholders would vote its way.

25.   Currently, shareholders do not vote on broad-based plans that award options to executives and lower-level employees.

26.   CRA shareholders today voted overwhelmingly to approve the merger proposal.

27.   Elsewhere, some bonds of RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp. lost value amid concern shareholders voted to urge the food and cigarette company to spin off its Nabisco food unit.

28.   Fearing that shareholders might vote against the incumbent directors, the directors decided to change the rules.

29.   Finally, one of the biggest reasons shareholders should vote against this deal is the contentious nature of the battle over it.

30.   First, a government task force will identify property for the swap, then Crown Butte shareholders must vote on the plan.