1.   Activist shareholders have increasingly sought to force closed-end funds to convert to open-end status as a way of eliminating the discount.

2.   Conversions, along with share buybacks, are a favored strategy for eliminating large discounts.

3.   Dole also won passage of a proposal sought by Time Warner that eliminated programming discounts for small cable operators.

4.   In either case, the discount should be eliminated and investors should be able to sell at net asset value.

5.   It offered to sell Windows at a standard price to all comers, thereby eliminating the discounts which some less favored computer maker viewed as biased.

6.   Not only have emerging markets rebounded, but some activist shareholders, especially institutional investors, have been pushing funds to eliminate persistent discounts to net asset value.

7.   The bottler was also ordered to eliminate some discounts in its exclusive contracts with supermarkets, a move that could dampen its business.

8.   Brooks alleged Taubman had ordered her to meet in secret with Davidge and end the costly rivalry by eliminating discounts and charging identical, nonnegotiable commissions.

9.   Brooks alleged Taubman ordered her to meet in secret with Davidge and end the costly rivalry by eliminating discounts and charging identical, non-negotiable commissions.

10.   During testimony, Brooks and Davidge said their bosses had ordered them to end a costly rivalry by eliminating discounts and charging identical, non-negotiable commissions.