Asked about other acquisition prospects, he would only say: "We're just about looking all the time". He said K mart would not pursue unfriendly acquisitions, noting that the company had approached two unnamed prospects but backed off after the firms indicated that they were not interested.
Actually, this shouldn't be surprising: these massive companies were largely created, after all, by the acquisition (many of them unfriendly) of scores of smaller and more dynamic companies.
An aggressive, down-to-earth legal warrior, Flom helped the investment banking fraternity effect unfriendly takeovers in the race to grow by acquisition in the 1970s and 1980s.
(During his earnings call, Michael Dell managed one unfriendly aside about HP. Asked about Google's acquisition of Motorola yesterday. He said, "we're still interested in Android (Google's mobile operating system), working on Windows 8 (Microsoft's mobile operating system).
What is remarkable about this acquisition-happy management is that it refuses to do unfriendly deals.
Table 2 Some pediatric challenges in functional imaging studies [28] Small patient numbers Limited normative data Child unfriendly environment (MRI) Acoustic noise Motion artifacts Effects of maturation Effects of sedation Limited cooperation Monitoring task performance Limited acquisition time .
That was decidedly unfriendly.
