1.   I find it really depressing that a city as diverse as New York has succumbed to this kind of corporate takeover.

2.   Their spree of corporate takeovers is, for the most part, wildly ill-advised and poorly executed.

3.   And hostile corporate takeovers, until recently almost unthinkable outside Britain, have become common in France, Italy and Germany.

4.   And the corporate takeover of news departments makes conflicts of interest inevitable.

5.   And yet, with two corporate takeovers behind it, ABC News provides fodder for both the pessimists and the optimists.

6.   As a politician and a wealthy businessman specializing in corporate takeovers, Riordan has sometimes been criticized as being overly secretive.

7.   As corporate takeovers mount, charities may benefit.

8.   At first, the two bantered about all the money to be made in corporate takeovers.

9.   At first, the corporate takeovers might seem to be a kiss of death.

10.   Attempts to agree on common rules for corporate takeovers, financial services and patents have either been blocked or slowed.