41.   Analysts said the failed investment banking experiment could make NatWest and its management vulnerable to a takeover bid.

42.   Analysts speculated on whether it was the start of a takeover bid.

43.   And Manweb PLC is fighting a takeover bid by Scottish Power PLC.

44.   And Pickens, the former oilman and corporate raider whose takeover bids once struck terror in boardrooms, has more in mind for the Mesa Vista than golf.

45.   And shareholders of an unprofitable printing-equipment maker, Linotype Hell AG of Eschborn, Germany, last month accepted a takeover bid from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG.

46.   Arguing the latter, a group of angry shareholders are trying to oust management by backing a takeover bid by AISoftware, a software company based in Italy.

47.   Another, Northern Electric Plc, escaped the first takeover bid in the industry after bidder Trafalgar House Plc withdrew because of unexpected changes in regulation and electricity prices.

48.   As the CFO of Promus Hotels Corp., Bollenbach helped the Memphis, Tennessee-based hotel company repulse a takeover bid from Trump.

49.   At a news conference last week announcing the takeover bid, Wells Fargo Chief Executive Paul Hazen said the merger would save both banks hundreds of millions of dollars.

50.   At the time, the London exchange was fighting a hostile takeover bid from O.M. Group of Sweden, which runs the Stockholm stock exchange.