31.   Countryman will continue to serve on a variety of corporate boards, including BankBoston Corp. and Boston Edison Co.

32.   Currently, many public funds have called for corporate boards to be composed largely of independent directors, especially on such key functions as the audit committee.

33.   Corporate boards represent the interests of shareholders and oversee management.

34.   Desperate corporate boards scoured the United States for executives who had already steered their companies through similar revampings.

35.   David J. Barrett, deputy general manager of the Hearst Broadcasting Group and a vice president of the corporation, also was elected to the corporate board.

36.   Dinkins also sits on four corporate boards, including the American Stock Exchange and New World Communications, a company controlled by Perelman that owns television stations.

37.   Dividend changes historically are a lagging indication of corporate profitability and at the same time a sign that corporate boards have confidence in the future.

38.   Decades ago, the handful of women on corporate boards was often wives or daughters of the men who started the company.

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

40.   During his tenure at Vanguard, Bogle sat on several corporate boards, although he noted that Vanguard relies on outside money managers to pick investments.