71.   Britain was worried that adding new countries to the EU would dilute the voting power of the larger, original members and threatened to hold up EU expansion.

72.   But despite the need to modernise, there could be stiff resistance from the names, who still hold most of the voting power, Johnson said.

73.   Many of the ballots, or proxies, were already sent in by mail, and a large bloc of voting power is held by institutional shareholders.

74.   Malone also agreed to place the roughly nine percent stake that his company will own into a trust allowing Time Warner to keep the voting power.