11.  Northern Telecom said its common shareholders had approved a two-for-one stock split at a special meeting of shareholders today.

12.  Only the common shareholders lose.

13.  Preferred stock pays a fixed dividend and has claim to assets of a company ahead of common shareholders in the event of a liquidation.

14.  Permit holding companies for financial institutions as early as next year, which would encourage companies to form partnerships under a common shareholder.

15.  That in turn, augments the returns of the fund to its common shareholders.

16.  The reorganization plan calls for issuing common shareholders warrants that would entitle them to buy up to nine percent of new company stock.

17.  The transaction requires separate majority approval of both Class H and common shareholders.

18.  They say its plan to merge with Englewood, Colorado-based ROC favors the interests of entrenched senior management and early investors at the expense of common shareholders.

19.  Yaohan International Corp. is the common shareholder of the Yaohan companies in Hong Kong and Japan.

20.  And a deal could be sealed sooner than expected since both KCT and KPM have a common major shareholder in Kontena Nasional Bhd.