21.   Inco and Diamond Fields expect to hold shareholder meetings by late May to vote on the deal.

22.   Is the public invited to shareholder meetings?

23.   Japanese companies sometimes hire sokaiya to maintain order at shareholder meetings.

24.   McCaw Cellular Communications was well-known for holding annual shareholder meetings that were the soul of brevity.

25.   Newspapers could best serve their readers by sending their society columnists to the shareholders meetings and the financial and political writers to the society balls.

26.   Mullin faced some hassling himself on security and other issues from shareholder Evelyn Davis, a frequent corporate critic who peppers executives with questions at shareholder meetings.

27.   Olivetti plans shareholder meetings early in April to discuss capital increases and bond issues.

28.   Other Japanese companies are beginning to conduct annual shareholder meetings of the kind held in the West.

29.   Once common at shareholder meetings, the ranks of the sokaiya have been thinned by tougher police tactics and harsher penalties against implicated executives.

30.   Prosecutors say Koike used the loans to buy shares in several companies and then threaten to disrupt their shareholder meetings.