21.   Meanwhile, the New York Jazz Critics Circle backed out as the nominating committee.

22.   Nonperformers are chosen directly by the nominating committee.

23.   One step favored by corporate governance experts is to have all board members selected by a nominating committee of nonmanagement directors.

24.   She served seven years on the Tony nominating committee.

25.   She was the only candidate put forward by an alumni association nominating committee, which includes alumni leaders as well as Yale officials.

26.   Six members were elected to the board, two were elected to the nominating committee and one was elected to the post of associate member director.

27.   That is at best an evolutionary step, though, if the current members of the nominating committee owe their board seats to the chief executive.

28.   The board lacks a nominating committee.

29.   The best evidence of the coziness between the directors and executives, critics say, is the lack of a nominating committee.

30.   The foreign language nominating committee has been in this embarrassing, easily manipulated rut for a long time now.