51.   Wallace also filed lawsuits to block Moore from going to shareholders with its hostile offer.

52.   Warner-Lambert countersued saying the hostile offer violated the marketing agreement it had with Pfizer regarding Lipitor.

53.   WHX made four failed bids to acquire Teledyne Inc., which spurned the hostile offers and merged with Allegheny Ludlum Corp. last year.

54.   Why make a hostile offer contingent on board approval?

55.   Zell launched the hostile tender offer earlier this month in an attempt to break up the agreement between Chateau and ROC.

56.   Zell launched the hostile tender offer earlier this month in an attempt to break up the agreement between Chateau and ROC after an earlier, friendly offer was ignored.

57.   Analysts said most shareholders would wait until the last minute to decide whether to accept the hostile offer.

58.   CE Electric hoped it had made a knockout bid for Northern Electric, which last year escaped a higher hostile offer from the engineering group Trafalgar House PLC.

59.   Each individual step would still have to be approved by the supervisory board, once a hostile offer was made.

60.   Elf resisted the hostile offer, coming back with its own cash-and-stock counterbid to acquire Total Fina.