61.   The lawyer often represents foreign investors at shareholder meetings in Italy.

62.   The Rainbow Coalition also will buy stock in the largest media companies, giving its representatives the right to attend annual shareholder meetings.

63.   The shareholder meetings came at the same time as a slew of managers defected from Olivetti, further putting pressure on De Benedetti.

64.   They have linked the real estate company to sokaiya racketeers, who extort money by threatening to disrupt shareholder meetings.

65.   They threaten to make it public, usually at annual shareholders meetings, when top executives must answer questions from the audience.

66.   To be sure, American shareholder meetings are anything but models of democracy.

67.   Those brokerage shares gave Koike influence over Nomura, which is now accused of making payoffs to silence Koike at shareholder meetings.

68.   Utility shareholder meetings are typically sedate affairs with a few questions and a quick adjournment.

69.   Whether three minutes or three hours, analysts say the shareholders meetings and even interruptions by sokaiya rarely affect stock prices.

70.   Annual shareholder meetings are usually somewhat perfunctory.