1.   A poison pill is designed to make a hostile takeover prohibitively expensive by allowing shareholders, other than the hostile suitor, to buy company stock at discounted prices.

2.   Buybacks can take a lot of the steam out of a hostile suitor.

3.   Trying to fend off a proxy battle next month, Teledyne Inc. says it is up for sale and asked hostile suitor WHX Corp. to abandon its takeover attempt.

4.   But Societe Generale had vigorously opposed BNP, saying its hostile suitor would not have the authority to make major decisions for the bank.

5.   But Societe Generale has vigorously opposed BNP, saying its hostile suitor would not have the authority to make major decisions for the bank.

6.   The original bid from the Postal Service and Deutsche Bank for Postbank has sparked a bitter public row between Postbank and its hostile suitors.

7.   Warner-Lambert said it would hold merger talks with hostile suitor Pfizer, abandoning its November decision to be acquired by American Home Products.

8.   Warner-Lambert said today it would hold merger talks with hostile suitor Pfizer, abandoning its November decision to be acquired by American Home Products.

9.   Willamette Industries officially acknowledged Monday that a rival slate of directors from hostile suitor Weyerhaeuser had captured seats on its board.