1.   Among other things, he is fighting European Commission efforts for laws that would require companies to receive shareholder approval before erecting defenses against hostile takeover attempts.

2.   A nationwide push to deregulate the utility industry has prompted an increase in buyouts and hostile takeover attempts.

3.   A suitor would want to appease them, making hostile attempts rare, analysts said.

4.   ADT is the largest security systems company in the U.S. and is currently resisting a hostile takeover attempt by Western Resources Inc.

5.   But Mellon has little faith that Bank of New York will walk away from its bid without taking the difficult and painstaking step of mounting a hostile takeover attempt.

6.   Chartwell Re Corp., a reinsurance company, said its board of directors adopted a stock option plan to discourage hostile takeover attempts.

7.   Crime experts say they doubt the incursion into Boston was invited, making it akin to a hostile takeover attempt.

8.   Des Moines, Iowa-based Younkers has been battling a hostile takeover attempt by Milwaukee-based Carson Pirie Scott since last October.

9.   Dainong Group led declines, amid concern its recent rescue of Midopa Co., its retailing unit, from hostile takeover attempts may have drained its finances.

10.   Des Moines, Iowa-based Younkers had been battling a hostile takeover attempt by Carson Pirie Scott since last October.