11.   Cheney has spent too many years in board rooms in the company of oil executives in Texas to speak knowledgeably about this issue.

12.   Donaldson was seen as smoother, at home in the corporate board room or on Capitol Hill.

13.   Even when the gadflies lose a battle, they can wreak havoc in bank board rooms and office towers.

14.   Expressions of exhilaration and frustration can be heard from book groups to church groups, from board rooms to bedrooms.

15.   Feelings about the meeting are running strong outside the board room, too.

16.   For some people in Silicon Valley, the garage still holds more allure than the board room.

17.   For Disney, the real issue is not chairs in the board room but control of its brands.

18.   He said that after the Times Co. directors approved the new changes on Thursday, he was invited into the board room.

19.   Her new look was extremely short high-water trousers that would never work in a board room.

20.   He seems like a guy used to talking in corporate board rooms where no one talks back.