Word: greenmailed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, Edelman, 50, has plenty of reasons to hunch. Since 1986 he has launched hostile raids on ten large corporations and nine of the bids have failed, though Edelman has collected some greenmail for quitting the attacks. He managed to capture one of his prey, the Ponderosa restaurant chain, but resold it without a profit...
Pickens is demanding seats on Koito's board for two colleagues and himself, but the Japanese company is challenging his motives. They suspect that Pickens may be involved with Watanabe in a scheme to elicit a greenmail payment in return for the 20% stake. Koito officials say twice last year Watanabe approached them with an offer to sell back his shares at a premium. They believe that after Koito rejected Watanabe's offer, he searched for a buyer...
Pickens' foray drew flak from Tokyo investors, who saw the move as an attempt to elicit greenmail -- the money that a company pays raiders when it buys back their shares at a costly premium. The Japanese government is investigating whether Pickens ambushed Koito by teaming up with secret partners who unethically bought shares for him under their own names...
...shifted from the literary world toward those of science, business, medicine and North American slang. In fact, a partial listing of what the language has been up to lately is enough to inspire depression: brain-dead, nose job, right-to-die, acid rain, crack, heat-seeker, asset stripping, greenmail, petro-currency, barf, drunk tank. There is not much here that would inspire Keats to write...
Flustered and unfamiliar with the ways of Wall Street, Miller's regime wound up paying Steinberg $52 million in greenmail to sell back his Disney stock and let them alone. But the company's weakened condition gave Roy Disney the leverage he needed to push for a new slate of leaders. One of his informal advisers had been Frank Wells, a former vice chairman of Warner Bros., who had taken time out from show business to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents (he had to turn back 3,000 ft. below the summit of Mount Everest...