Subject: Shareholder resolutions
Author:  Christine Beard 
Date:    12/4/97 1:42 PM
     
     
Dear Sir or Madam,
     
I strongly oppose any regulations which are designed to reduce corporate 
accountability and responsiveness to shareholders. Shareholder 
resolutions are often the only means shareholders have to influence the 
decisions made by the corporations in which they have invested. 
Corporations and wealthy investors already enjoy an overwhelming 
abundance of power. Shareholder resolutions by small shareholders 
(either as individuals or in groups) are needed as a balance to that 
power -- a balance which is in the best tradition of democracy.
     
Sincerely Yours,
     
Christine H. Beard
LifeDance
55 New Montgomery St., Ste. 702
San Francisco, CA 94105-3434