1. A general partner or voting stock holder of a NYSE member firm; allowed to perform transactions on the exchange floor.

2. Buffett, who controls one-third of Berkshire's voting stock, is sending a strong signal that he believes his shares are undervalued.

3. This type of stock is called voting stock, and it may not be changed to nonvoting stock without the stockholder's consent.

4. The Gaylord family controls about 60 percent of the voting stock, so approval is virtually certain.

5. A wholly owned subsidiary is one in which the parent owns 100 percent of the voting stock of the subsidiary.

6. On May 6th the warring Porsche and Pi?ch families, which own all the voting stock of the holding company that controls Porsche, agreed to find a way of merging the two carmakers.

7. A company that controls subsidiaries through its ownership of voting stock,(/voting stock.html) as well as runs its own business.

8. A company of which more than 50 percent of its voting stock is owned by the parent company.

9. In announcing board approval for a buyback, Mr. Buffett, who controls one-third of Berkshire's voting stock, is sending a strong signal that he believes his shares are undervalued.

10. "assignment" shall not include the transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of, or the interest in the voting stock of a party, or the merger of a party with one or more entities.