(The Chinese takeovers of South African and Nigerian textile industries are good examples of this strategy.

First, firms with a high CEO pay slice tend to make worse acquisition decisions.

So it's an acquisition where MoMA makes an arrangement with an airline and keeps the Boeing 747 flying.

One cannot build up a significant shareholding and use it to put pressure on boards let alone pursue a hostile takeover.

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What I'm going to show you first, as quickly as I can, is some foundational work, some new technology that we brought to Microsoft as part of an acquisition almost exactly a year ago.

Witness the takeover by Lloyds TSB of the troubled HBOS (Halifax Bank of Scotland) in the UK, or post crisis consolidation in the US.

(I was an investor in both of them, so I have been watching these developments with interest, but I have no inside information on either company since the acquisitions.)

Some national bodies, such as the Deutsche Handball Bund (DHB, German Handball Federation ), allow substitution in junior teams only when in ball possession or during timeouts.

Bank bonds could also be reduced and converted into equity, which would both avert a government takeover of banks and prevent socialization of bank losses from causing a sovereign debt crisis.

NEW HAVEN The United States government s takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac constitutes a huge bailout of these institutions creditors, whose losses have ballooned as house prices continue to plummet.

In manufacturing and services (particularly software, business processing, etc.), respectively, China and India have made huge strides internationally, and their acquisition of global companies has attracted considerable attention.

The principalities of Serbia and Croatia split control of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 9th and 10th centuries, but by the High Middle Ages political circumstance led to the area being contested between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Byzantine Empire.

Policymakers in the industrial core looked the other way as rapidly growing East Asian countries acquired Western technologies and industrial capabilities through unorthodox policies such as subsidies, local content requirements, reverse engineering, and currency undervaluation.

Unfortunately, as China has already claimed a large share of the world s merchandise exports (10.4 in 2010) and economic stagnation in the West is constraining external demand, this strategy can no longer work.

OK The introduced restrictions and bans clearly divided society into two opposing groups, with some believing that national security should be the ultimate value in conflict settings, and the others pointing to them as a slippery slope that may end up in total control over the public opinion.

JERUSALEM Although the crisis over Israel s naval interventions to defend its blockade of Gaza is gaining all the headlines around the world, something of far more historic importance is taking place in the Middle East.

The strategy was based on the presence of entrenching governance provisions, such as a classified board or a poison pill, which insulate managements from the discipline of the market for corporate control.

For example, when a tiny Italian bank received from someone who never traded a large order for shares of US Shoe shortly before the company was acquired by Italian eyewear maker Luxottica, it was not difficult to smell a fish.