It worked on Deutsche Telekom's privatisation and was a big influence behind Krupp's 1997 hostile-turned-friendly bid for Thyssen, another steel maker.
The Bush team shares, moreover, in some of the blame for what Fingar subsequently did on Iran by acquiescing to the granting of so much authority over U.S. intelligence products to so political - and overtly hostile - an individual.
Since the start of the war, 255 U.S. troops have been killed -- 170 hostile deaths and 85 non-hostile.
On the one hand he's saying the United States has no intent - no hostile intent - against Iran.
On my behalf a lawyer friend write a non-hostile letter to Rite-Aid describing my experience.
As a two-man team, they venture into the tough, hostile inner-city neighborhoods of Los Angeles and try to hustle the kings of the local courts.
By the mid-1990s Chrysler had survived near bankruptcy and a failed hostile buy-out launched by Kirk Kerkorian, a corporate raider who was its biggest single shareholder.
His efforts were briefly overshadowed by a hostile six-over spell from Flintoff, who finished with impressive figures of 2-16.
To ensure its leadership, Pfizer grabbed all of Lipitor first with its hostile take-over of Warner-Lambert, followed by the purchase of Pharmacia.
Its boss, Dietmar Kuhnt, said recently that he would consider hostile cross-border deals if need be (Britain's National Power is thought a possible target).
In 1993, after 2, 000 years of often hostile Christian-Jewish relations, the Vatican and Israel approved a document in which the Holy See and the Jewish state recognized each other.
"We have an approval and reimbursement system that is expensive, risk-averse and basically hostile to start-ups, " said William A. Sahlman, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and an investor in Rest Devices.
The only difference between the original hostile takeover- and leveraged buyout-predators of the 1980s and the current band of Internet dealmakers is that the new generation is using stock certificates instead of junk bonds to snap up rivals.
Friday is the last day they can submit proposals to the U.S. Army for the Common Infrared Countermeasures program, a system that may one day equip thousands of military helicopters with lasers that can jam the guidance of hostile heat-seeking missiles.
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There is a DNA test which would have helped to settle the issue before her children were taken from her in the hostile adoptions - which, like all adoptions, are irreversible - but Nicky was not tested because, it seems, she did not have the disease.
The Democrats are hoping to capitalise on the Republican Party's disarray on the issue - and the perception that the party is hostile to Hispanics - to gain more of their votes.
Similarly the depression of the 1890s provoked a host of migrant-hostile legislation in Argentina, America and elsewhere, as native-born workers demanded that foreign rivals be kept out.
But late Tuesday, it faced a more-hostile reception at a town park in northern Uganda, where Mr. Kony based his two-decade insurgency until 2005.
The question facing the parties now is whether Britons are hostile to asylum-seekers or to immigrants in general.
Regulators should be hostile to rent-seeking by the established, and hospitable to the companies whose names we do not know.
And their reliance on spin made them hostile to scrutiny - which is why Labour ended up diluting political accountability.
Viewed from this angle, libertarianism is actually far more hostile to knee-jerk plutocracy than either Krugman or Kotkin might think.
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The experimental venture gained her a faithful online following, and since then the channel has become a platform for entertaining, non-hostile debate.
However, TiVo also made one of the most consumer-hostile moves of the year when it discontinued its popular lifetime plan option.
Universities UK, representing university leaders, remains hostile to essay-writing services, saying it is "absurd" to think that they are not misused by students.
Even in California, a state more hostile to Wal-Mart expansion than others, the company managed to convert more than 30 old-style stores last year.
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For many, both in foreign capitals, among the media elite and in Bush-hostile political circles, this is widely regarded as a very good thing.
Those who have charged the Obama administration and Congress with being hostile to free-market enterprise may take heart from a nugget in the bill.
Steve Jobs, for instance, unified a once-hostile board with his vision for the company through continued demonstration of his complete commitment to the Apple brand.
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