11.   The improved offer came in response to a sweetened offer from Nippon Telegraph.

12.   The London exchange rejects the Swedish bid, and Frankfurt indicates that it will make a sweetened offer.

13.   The sweetened offer is lower than many analysts and investors expected.

14.   The sweetened Laidlaw offer came after the close of U.s. stock markets.

15.   They speculated that there might be a sweetened offer from IBM or other potential bidders.

16.   When BMW outbid Volkswagen at an auction for Rolls-Royce this spring, Piech scuttled the deal with a sweetened offer to Vickers.

17.   With the sweetened offer, Moore hopes shareholders will tender quickly and pressure Wallace to remove the poison pill and negotiate a merger agreement, Moore said.

18.   Paribas, the third bank in the battle, said it had rejected the sweetened BNP offer on Friday.

19.   Its sweetened offer for Nicolas Anelka rebuffed by Arsenal, Lazio has announced that it has quit negotiations to buy the French striker.

20.   Manweb rejected the sweetened offer.