The extended 105-day bid period means increased uncertainty, which may limit the desire of acquirers to go hostile and, at the same time, encourage activists to try to work a deal from the other side.
Sea-Land noted that on Dec. 10 it had adopted a shareowners' rights plan for protection from a hostile takeover and at the same time reconsidered the provisions in its long-term debt agreements.
Colonel Ba was annoyed at being suddenly saddled with the tedious and thankless task of caring for anywhere from six thousand to ten thousand homeless, hostile villagers, but at the same time he was a little flattered when the Americans told him that they were thrusting on him a position of "command" in the largest operation of the Vietnam war.
"[Some] people don't know how to separate Tracy Morgan from Tracy Jordan," Morgan shouted at me, hostile and cordial at the same time.
We show that an entrenched manager can avoid a hostile takeover and bankruptcy at the same time by issuing well-designed callable convertible debt.
Taming will not take place if hostile mobs are attacking at the same time.
The terrorists are at once parasitical on, and at the same time hostile toward, the globalized economy, the Internet and the technological revolution in military affairs.
"Freediving might be considered extreme, because it takes place in an environment hostile to the human body, but at the same time, it is peaceful, natural and pure," said William Trubridge, 30, a world-champion freediver and trainer from New Zealand.
So we find ourselves in an environment in which large American corporations are increasingly hostile to the bulk of workers at the same time that un- and under-employment rates are high, unemployment is lasting longer and benefits are drying up.
He refused to be bound by the inflexible dogma of the Church, yet at the same time was hostile to the fundamentalist rationalism of the enlightenment.
