Word: pursuers
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White Knight. A corporation that rides to the aid of another in a takeover fight. The knight rescues the embattled firm by agreeing to acquire it on better terms than the pursuer would provide. The improved provisions can include a higher purchase price for the company's stock, and assurances that executives of the acquired corporation will not be forced to use their golden parachutes...
...fallen. Said one executive who took part in the negotiations: "The way things turned out makes Diamond management look a little erratic." Furthermore, by considering such an arrangement, Bricker posted notice that Diamond Shamrock is for sale. Bricker insisted last week that his company is still "an aggressive pursuer" seeking to acquire another oil company. But in the volatile oil game, he is a hunter who could just end up being bagged...
Repulsed by Tucker's methods and motives, Barclay flees from country to country. Through Tucker's persistence, though, Barclay learns more and more about his pursuer. Tucker, an emmisary from Astrakhan College in Nebraska, has been given a special commission by a man named Halliday, a patron of the school, to write Barclay's official biography. Halliday likes Barclay because of an admission in one of his books to "liking sex but having no capacity for love." Barclay, remembering that he wrote the sentence simply to record a stray idea, is confused and disgusted by Tucker's persistence...
Until a gay man asked him out. My friend didn't accept, but the calls kept coming anyway because he couldn't find a way to say no. I was spared from becoming a bridesmaid at their wedding, not because he found a way to deflect his pursuer, but because the calls finally stopped (presumably the gentleman found someone...
...dawn on Monday. Kennedy stopped at the White House to shower and change clothes. Before a few hundred people he spoke his words for our time: "I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war-and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears. But we have no more urgent task...