1.   Also Thursday, shareholders overwhelmingly voted down a proposal that would have made future stock option grants for company executives performance-based.

2.   An exemption for the Great Eight was voted down last year.

3.   An effort led by the United States to rebuke Cuba for its human-rights practices was voted down Tuesday by the U.N. Human Rights Commission.

4.   A bear market would help, many experts say, because shareholders would start voting down management plans for issuing shares to reward top executives and other employees.

5.   A sharply divided commission voted down a reconsideration of the issue in March, despite the fact that PCG would charge significantly higher fees than Cambridge.

6.   A referendum voted down the new flag.

7.   A search subcommittee recommended Thomas Corts, president of Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., but regents voted down the nomination.

8.   After the city of Charlotte voted down a referendum measure for a new arena, the general perception was that the franchise might consider moving in two years.

9.   Again by comfortable margin, state legislators voted down a proposal to end the time-worn practice of stuffing legislative and executive offices with family members.

10.   Ahmanson has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission for permission to take the buyout offer directly to shareholders in the event they vote down the Washington Mutual proposal.