1.   Applied said it made the hostile offer because friendly merger discussions with Read-Rite, based in Milpitas, Calif., had broken down.

2.   Applied Magnetics said it started the hostile offer because friendly talks with Read-Rite had ground to a halt.

3.   Bank of New York could make a hostile offer to acquire State Street.

4.   Because of its hostile tender offer, Browning-Ferris was unable to do a due diligence of Attwoods.

5.   A Canadian-based chain of funeral homes and cemeteries called Loewen Group Inc. just gave a lesson on dealing with hostile takeover offers.

6.   A milestone of sorts was reached last week when Yahoo succeeded with a hostile offer to buy HotJobs.com, an online recruiting site.

7.   A hostile offer does.

8.   A hostile offer by another bidder probably would block such approval, although the companies might be able to restructure the deal as a purchase to avoid shareholder votes.

9.   After protests from workers who said a fusion of the two companies would destroy jobs, the hostile offer was abandoned.

10.   Ahmanson accelerated its buyback program when it made a hostile offer to acquire Los Angeles-area rival Great Western Financial Corp.