21.   Moore has been under pressure from a shareholder group led by the wealthy Bass family of Texas to improve its performance and its share price.

22.   Minority shareholder groups in the Netherlands, where Gucci is incorporated for tax reasons, and in France back Arnault.

23.   Robert A.G. Monks, head of Lens Inc., a shareholder activist group in Washington, said the quick initial jump in the shares indicated that policyholders were short-changed.

24.   SEC Commissioner Steven Wallman has long contended, as have shareholder activist groups, that the Cracker Barrel ruling should be reversed.

25.   Shareholder groups and institutional investors say the survey oversimplifies the shareholder proposal process and its pitfalls.

26.   Shareholder activist groups say option repricings are inherently unfair.

27.   Shareholder groups and activists have been urging PepsiCo and other U.S. companies to withdraw from Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, which is run by a repressive regime.

28.   Several shareholder groups have already filed lawsuits in the United States and Canada against Bre-X.

29.   SHAREHOLDERS OF THE WORLD UNITE Corporate governance issues, once largely the province of a handful of shareholder groups in the United States, are going global.

30.   Several French companies, like the conglomerate Vivendi and the bank Societe Generale, have recently limited stockholder voting rights, sending minority shareholder groups to the barricades.