21.  As a privately held company, Culturefinder.com does not report its financial results.

22.  As a privately held company, Hobby Lobby has more leeway to decide its operating hours.

23.  As a privately held company, it is financially accountable only to its investors, who seem content.

24.  As the chairman of Stan Lee Media, a publicly held company based in Encino, Calif., Leeis participating directly in the revolution being created by the Internet.

25.  Asked about this, an NAR spokeswoman referred the matter to Homestore.com, a publicly held company in Thousand Oaks, which manages the Realtor.com Web site.

26.  ASA, a privately held company, does not release its financial results.

27.  At the time of the crash, Sabretech was a subsidiary of a privately held St. Louis company, Sabreliner.

28.  At the same time, because most shows are produced by privately held companies, souvenir sales figures are closely guarded secrets.

29.  Auditors of all publicly held companies would be required to belong to the board.

30.  Auditors are independent, outside firms, hired by publicly held companies to audit their books because securities law requires it.