Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...puckish new novel. Determined to tease men out of their cozy gallantry, and also to expose Italy's rococo inefficiency, a sextet of foreign women in a sleepy Tuscan village decide to rob a local mail train. Plotting the crime as if it were a script, they adopt literary aliases, don disguises and then, without much difficulty, carry off the million-dollar theft. The lackadaisical local police force instantly sets up an intensive manhunt, combing the area for conmen, wise guys and rogues. But the women, as they had suspected, are not in the least suspected...
Another maneuver is to adopt a bylaw requiring a super-majority of outstanding voting shares, say 70% or 80%, for approval of a tender offer. Reincorporating in a state with rules that favor existing management is another defense. In Delaware, certain defensive tactics, like issuing rights or options to buy shares of a company, can be approved by directors alone, without a vote by shareholders. Gulf reincorporated in Delaware from Pennsylvania, thus shielding itself at least for now against a raid by Mesa Petroleum's T. Boone Pickens Jr. Many experts question the legality of shark repellents. Dissident shareholders...
...remove any excuse in future for selective punishment of hecklers after the fact, and to insure for speakers the opportunity to air their views, the University should adopt a comprehensive policy similar to the one already successfully in place at the Kennedy School. Hecklers who seriously disrupt University-sponsored events should first be asked to respect the rights of the speaker, and, if they refuse, should be escorted from the hall. By adopting and publicizing such a policy. Harvard will be able to adequately insure order a public events and students will not be subject to retroactive discipline...
...micro-floppy-disc drive for personal computers, which can store a megabyte, or 1 million characters of information. Hewlett-Packard already includes the Sony device in its machines, Apple Computer will use it in its new Macintosh computer, and there are rumors that IBM is about to adopt it for future computers...
Currenity Harvard Athletic Department officials are considering either hearing with security guards for shenexe Class, or distorting post dowaing an marketable Both choices are totally on the factory. The Athletic Department should show some common sense and respect spectator safety, and adopt this simple safety measure. Ron Herman