21. On the one hand, the hostile bid marks another outbreak of politically incorrect corporate behavior in a country where takeovers have traditionally been negotiated quietly behind closed doors. 22. Ongoing worry over the outlook for corporate profits, as well as government probes of corporate behavior, hurt the market as well. 23. Plunging stock prices helped to change corporate behavior. 24. Punitive damages are often the best deterrent to destructive corporate behavior. 25. Shareholders and other stakeholders have new ways to monitor corporate behavior and to urge change. 26. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a member of the task force, said the tax code should be used as a tool to reward certain types of corporate behavior. 27. Some experts on corporate behavior and the environment say the most revealing thing about the Hudson-GE fight is that it could occur at all. 28. The battle raises questions about class and corporate behavior and the nature of government, and it is being fought by people in anguished circumstances. 29. The Europeans have stepped up their policing of corporate behavior under their competition commissioner, Monti, a Yale-educated Italian economist. 30. The House remedy would in fact inevitably delay or halt governmental efforts to set parameters on potentially dangerous corporate behavior. |