1.   This problem does not arise if there are independent directors on the board of the vendor company who are responsible for making decisions.

2.   And as a director on the boards of two multibillion-dollar mutual funds, she had some credentials that helped justify her appearance.

3.   And Patricia R. Forbes has begun working for Kerry as the Democratic staff director on the Senate Small Business Committee, moving over from the Small Business Administration.

4.   At other companies, like Cummins Engine, the process is more clearly driven by directors on the compensation committee.

5.   Authorities yesterday arrested three bank executives and a former managing director on suspicion of making the loans.

6.   Baugh, a director on the Virginia ACLU board, has a history of taking cases involving First Amendment issues.

7.   -- Require a majority of directors on investment company boards to be independent directors, a practice currently followed by many, but not all, funds.

8.   A communications director on the Senate side said the report is consuming everything at the Capitol.

9.   Also, Ellen Hyde was named to the new position of senior partner and management director on the Boston Market account.

10.   But they can apply pressure to the director on such actions.