In fact, it was plainly hoping to kill off its weaker rival.
This enterprise was open to the public, and, although it was popular, lack of funds made it a weak rival to court theatre.
Recent surveys predicted that Mr. Ahn, if he became the single candidate representing the liberal South Koreans, would beat Ms. Park, while Mr. Moon would be a much weaker rival against her.
On February 17th, Cingular, an American wireless telecoms company, agreed to buy AT&T Wireless, a weaker rival, for $41 billion in cash, about twice the price that the market was putting on the intermittently profitable firm just over a month ago.To be fair, the price for AT&T Wireless had been pushed up during a bidding war last weekend with Vodafone, a rival telecoms carrier.
Mr. Miliband, widely viewed as a weak rival to Mr. Cameron until the recent revelations about the extent of phone hacking emerged this month, appeared to view the matters as weighty enough to form a new platform for Labour, issuing a sonorous call that sounded like a promising election plank.
With headwinds like these, it won't be long before Exxon breaks down and uses its $37 billion cash pile to buy a weaker rival, preferably one with energy assets in the United States, which — at least for now — hasn't begun to arbitrarily claw back profits from private oil producers.
Facebook once tried to develop interest in its own Pinterest-style "collections," and more recently debuted a fairly weak rival effort with its Shopping Feed.
Interest-free financing bolstered G.M. sales and hurt weaker rivals.
The government, the critics say, is wrongly steering funds to banks to take over weaker rivals.
And it could cost weaker rivals such as Mitsubishi Electric and tinier Oki Electric their very existence.
