1.   Beyond the obligations of board membership, organizations offer plenty of inducements to giving.

2.   Board memberships are unpaid positions.

3.   Board membership makes an investor a corporate insider, limiting the freedom to buy and sell shares, and subjects the investor to shareholder lawsuits.

4.   But mostly, board membership has consisted of tiresome meetings about museum attendance and budget problems, spiced up with the obligatory black-tie fund-raisers.

5.   He believes that board membership allows him to participate in discussions of important decisions.

6.   It is the issue of board membership that is holding up a Disney deal with Starwave, a person involved in those talks said.

7.   Nor does board membership come with the guarantee of a turnaround.

8.   Their wealthy friends, never before all that curious about their board membership, now could not get enough museum gossip at cocktail parties.

9.   Willamette has a full complement of anti-takeover defenses, including a so-called poison pill and staggered board membership.

10.   Chrysler Corp., facing pressure from one of its major shareholders Kirk Kerkorian, announced Thursday its board of directors will review the corporate governance procedures and board membership.