71.   Earlier this year, the company failed in a hostile bid for Swiss paper and fibers company Holvis Holzstoff AG.

72.   Docks de France SA, the French supermarket operator weighing a hostile takeover bid from a rival, expects to say today whether it accepts.

73.   Earlier this year, Camerlin made a hostile bid and failed to acquire Yeo Hiap Seng Ltd., a Singapore soft drink maker.

74.   Echlin has been fighting the hostile bid since February and has asked shareholders to wait until its board makes a recommendation on the offer.

75.   Duck Head Apparel has avoided a potentially hostile takeover bid by shareholder Bettis Rainsford .

76.   Even though the offer was unsolicited, Speyer said Thursday that his group was not beginning a hostile bid.

77.   First Interstate Bancorp, which had been seeking alternatives to a hostile bid from Wells Fargo, found one with First Bank System of Minneapolis.

78.   First Interstate reached the merger agreement with First Bank in November, to escape the hostile bid Wells Fargo made a month earlier.

79.   Fisons PLC surrendered Wednesday to a hostile takeover bid by Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, the big French-American drug company.

80.   Fisons is fighting a hostile takeover bid from Rhone-Poulenc-Rorer Inc.