To counter the uninvited overture, Overland implemented a poison-pill plan a week after Advanced Digital's announcement.
The lilies, it turned out, contained a poison, later dubbed cyclopamine, that stunted developing lamb embryos.
Soon after, Office Depot created a poison pill defense that would fend off hostile takeovers.
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"It's not something that should be considered a poison pill or a hot potato, " said Gregory T.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ricin is a poison found naturally in castor beans.
At Exeter Crown Court, Hirst admitted administering a poison with intent to cause his wife injury or annoyance.
In 1984 Gibbs helped fend off hostile shareholders bent on liquidating the company and engineered a poison pill antitakeover provision.
Aflatoxin is a poison that is usually found in foods (especially peanuts) that have been contaminated by a particular fungus.
In a move to fend off any hostile takeover attempt, BMC this morning also announced the adoption of a poison pill rights plan.
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"This is not a poison pill, " South Carolina Republican Representative Mick Mulvaney, who supported the amendment, told the Associated Press prior to the vote.
Netflix is currently 9.98% owned by infamous corporate troublemaker Carl Icahn and adopted a poison-pill defense to stop him from getting any more.
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How strange, then, to find a poison pill being used (seemingly) in a good cause, against somebody who has (apparently) given many shareholders a lousy deal.
Mr Mather said independence would drive forward an economic model for a resilient Scotland "not one that gives us something that is half-baked and a poison pill".
When last we left our anti-hero, his handler, Diana, had injected him with a poison yet resurrected him by kissing him with the antidote on her lipstick.
This morning, Netflix announced that it has adopted a poison pill shareholder rights plan as a defense against unfriendly attempts to take control of the company.
The company has adopted a poison pill to discourage any hostile bid for the company after rumors floated that there might be an unwelcome buyer looking at the company.
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This week, Hollinger International's board launched a campaign, including the creation of a poison pill, to stop Lord Black selling control of the firm to the wealthy Barclay brothers.
Marco Rubio, the most prominent Republican in the "Gang of Eight, " was among those who called Leahy's amendments a poison pill virtually certain to destroy GOP support for the measure.
An official in the auto industry said that bringing the Colombian pact into the negotiations could be a poison pill that would prevent passage of an auto industry aid package.
But there are less toxic and nontoxic ways of controlling bugs, from borax (a poison) to essential oils, select plants, and ways to make common insects feel less welcome in your cupboard.
Bostock and the rest of the board call the offer insufficient and adopt a poison pill-type HR plan to make it virtually impossible for Microsoft to go through with the deal in a hostile manner.
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Last week, Esmark said it had adopted what is known as a poison pill plan, an antitakeover provision that is triggered if an entity attempts to acquire 15.0% or more of the company's common stock.
The removal of the salary cap, which could wreak havoc on the league as teams chase players and get away from their disciplined model tying salaries to revenue, was essentially a poison pill designed to spur owners and players toward an agreement.
Cojuangco initially put up a poison pill making it expensive for anyone to attempt a takeover, but according to one source, Jimenez convinced Pangilinan to up the ante for PLDT and persuaded Cojuangco that he was getting a good price for the family's shares.
Like most things, immigration to Russia is neither a panacea nor a poison (on the whole I would say its impact is modestly positive), but it can absolutely serve as a force that moderates the highly-touted outflow of university graduates, and the experience of Kupikupon is a very nice example of that.
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The board of film rental firm Netflix has adopted a "poison pill" strategy to ward off a potential hostile takeover bid by activist investor Carl Icahn.
For example, nicotine in high concentrations is a potent poison.
When natural evolution causes weeds or pests to resist their poisons, which their crops are resistant to, they simply breed a new crop and create a new poison to kill the pests.
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But this time his company is too small to buy a titan like Merck, and the joint venture could discourage buyers:It contains a "poison pill" clause that gives Merck the right to buy Schering-Plough's share of the partnership if Schering-Plough is acquired.
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