41.   The company could consider a hostile tender offer and ask Wachovia shareholders to sell their shares to SunTrust Banks in an effort to execute a takeover, he said.

42.   The French company later started a hostile tender offer for a controlling interest in True North conditioned on the termination of the Bozell acquisition.

43.   The financier also said a suit filed against Manufactured Home by Chateau alleging violation of federal securities laws in its hostile tender offer is without merit.

44.   The Italian company wants to fend off a hostile takeover offer from Olivetti, a much smaller Italian concern.

45.   The move is designed to fend off unwanted suitors like Zell by making it more expensive for a hostile offer to succeed.

46.   The shareholders meeting is important because SoftKey can proceed with its hostile offer only if Learning Co. investors reject the Broderbund offer.

47.   The weakness attracted a hostile takeover offer from its leading rival, Quark, which was later withdrawn.

48.   To add to that, the two also had agreements with Sprint that said they could not make a hostile offer for the company.

49.   ThyssenKrupp itself is a result of a hostile offer.

50.   TRW was forced to put itself up for sale after Northrop made a hostile offer that the company rejected.