Sentences with phrase «poison pill for»

«I don't think we would have gotten 45 states [to adopt the standards] without the federal incentive, but the downside is that this has become a poison pill for the right.»

GOP leaders in the state's upper house introduced another proposal to re-authorize mayoral control of the state's largest school system, offering New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio an additional three years but pairing it with a tax credit for donations to private school scholarships — a known poison pill for Heastie and the Democratic conference he leads.

As Robert McChesney puts it, the electronic media are «a poison pill for democracy.»

But each effectively had poison pills for the opposing chambers, with the Assembly linking the two years to tax extensions — vitally needed by communities around the state — and the Senate including an increase in charters with its promise of control.

Not exact matches

Democrats complained that the Republicans had loaded up the measure with «poison pills» including a ban on federal spending for Planned Parenthood.

Martin Lipton, the corporate lawyer best known for helping managers stay in control with so - called poison pills, says dual - class shares ward off «myopic activists» — hedge - fund managers and buyout specialists who aim to drive up share prices in the short term yet harm the company's long - term interests.

Consider the pill less poison than a carrier of indigestion for Gannett.

One obvious way out of the lawsuit would be for Allergan to say «come on, Pershing Square, your reading of the poison pill is absurd, of course it doesn't mean that, why are you embarrassing yourself with this lawsuit?»

The occasional request for activism aside, you basically do straightforward, passive, long - only investing, and so you're not necessarily set up to parse, or litigate over, poison pills.

However the seem to have a «Poison Pill» in place for unfriendly take overs.

Netflix's «poison pill» defense, which would make it much more difficult for Icahn — or anyone else — to mount a hostile takeover, comes as the streaming pioneer struggles to regain traction amid intense competition in the online - video space.

On a more fundamental level, the negotiations remain at an impasse over a collection of U.S. proposals dubbed «poison pills» by U.S. Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue, including the proposed sunset clause, an extreme approach to rule of origins for the auto and textile / apparel sectors, and measures that would undermine investment protection, government procurement, and trade in seasonal produce.

USA Today owner Gannett has boosted its takeover bid for Tribune Publishing Co. by about 22 percent one week after the owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other newspapers adopted a «poison pill» plan to thwart the unsolicited offer.

«Poison pills ultimately, they just encourage further negotiation and sometimes maybe a higher price,» said Elson, director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware.

J.C. Penney said that its «poison pill» will be effective until Aug. 20, 2014, unless rights are redeemed or exchanged for shares of its common stock on an earlier date.

The typical procedure is for the patient to take a lethal dose of poison (by swallowing pills, by injecting himself or by inhaling a gas, for example) that the patient has asked the physician to prescribe for that purpose.

Republicans need at least 60 votes in the Senate to pass an appropriations bill, and Democrats have made it clear that any budget that includes a «poison pill» like defunding Planned Parenthood or paying for the wall will be met with a lot of resistance.

The increased third year «poison pill» will likely have dramatic luxury - tax implications for James Dolan and the Knicks, should they match.

The deal was for $ 25 million over three years, though if Chicago were to match, the third year comes with a $ 14 million salary cap hit thanks to the «poison pill» clause that Rockets GM Daryl Morey also exploited in the Jeremy Lin chase.

These are major victories for Senate Democratic Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), who threatened to block the bill over what they considered «poison pill» riders.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's Housing Commissioner Vicki Been called Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed executive budget a «poison pill» for the city's affordable housing plan.

For the third time, de Blasio, who has sought long - term extensions of his control of city schools, is facing hostility from Senate Republicans who have attached poison pills to the extension — namely, the raising of the cap on charter schools in the city.

Increasing the TDI is an extremely sensitive issue for businesses and many legislators believe that including it with paid family leave will continue to be a poison pill.

Private funding for the Arecibo Observatory — the largest single - dish radio telescope in the world — may be a poison pill

Because plastic pellets are magnets for toxic chemicals like DDT and PCBs, they effectively become poison pills.

Unwilling to write prescriptions for what she considered «poison pills», Dr Pensanti decided to «kick it up a notch» and became an «activist» against synthetic hormones by taking her message to the radio waves as well as her weekly TV program.

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She doesn't want to pay for upscale frilly costumes, but really, she's too much of a poison pill to play by the rules that others set; she'd rather set herself, and her daughter, apart.

Steer clear of the culture wars: Politicians on the Left — many of whom oppose religious schools or church teaching on social issues — will attempt to insert «poison pills» into scholarship tax credit legislation to reduce support for the bill among social conservatives.

They are far too busy battling with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over a version of a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security that leaves out a poison pill kiboshing the Obama Administration's executive order temporarily staying deportation for five million undocumented emigres.

Zimmer's proposal to tighten oversight of charter schools, for example — a reform that's badly needed — came with a poison - pill provision establishing a moratorium on all new charters until the district developed a new monitoring system.

Being critical of many aspects of traditional publishing (the agent requirement, horrible contracts with more poison pills in them than you'd find in a bottle of arsenic, lack of appreciation for long - tail backlist sales) doesn't mean that the critic is beating up on authors who prefer that system, or who are contract bound into that system.

Beginning in 2009, financier Ron Burkle began mounting a hostile takeover bid for the bookseller; Barnes & Noble instituted a poison pill defense, which was upheld in 2011 by a Delaware court on appeal.

Mr. Lampert continued, «In addition to the Board's unilateral expansion of «golden parachute» payments for management and its unilateral adoption of the «poison pill,» we are also concerned with the Board's apparent dismissal of the compelling transaction proposed by MediciNova.

Please see «Proposal No. 1 — Reasons for Removing Existing Directors — We believe the unilateral action by the Board to adopt a «poison pill» is an attempt by the Board and management to ensure the retention of their jobs and their compensation» for further discussion of Avigen's recently adopted stockholder rights plan.

The tender offer is conditioned upon, among other things, (i) the BVF Nominees being elected to Avigen's board of directors at a special meeting of stockholders called for that purpose, or otherwise appointed, and constituting a majority of directors on Avigen's board, (ii) the Avigen board redeeming the poison pill rights issued and outstanding under Avigen's Poison Pill Rights Plan, or the Purchaser being satisfied in its reasonable discretion that the Poison Pill Rights are otherwise inapplicable to this tender offer, the Purchaser or any affiliate or associate of the Purchaser and (iii) Avigen not having authorized, recommended, proposed, announced its intent to enter into or entered into an agreement with respect to or effected any merger, consolidation, liquidation, dissolution, business combination, acquisition of assets, disposition of assets, alternative strategy or relinquishment of any material contract or other right of Avigen or any comparable event or capital depleting transaction not in the ordinary course of buspoison pill rights issued and outstanding under Avigen's Poison Pill Rights Plan, or the Purchaser being satisfied in its reasonable discretion that the Poison Pill Rights are otherwise inapplicable to this tender offer, the Purchaser or any affiliate or associate of the Purchaser and (iii) Avigen not having authorized, recommended, proposed, announced its intent to enter into or entered into an agreement with respect to or effected any merger, consolidation, liquidation, dissolution, business combination, acquisition of assets, disposition of assets, alternative strategy or relinquishment of any material contract or other right of Avigen or any comparable event or capital depleting transaction not in the ordinary course of businpill rights issued and outstanding under Avigen's Poison Pill Rights Plan, or the Purchaser being satisfied in its reasonable discretion that the Poison Pill Rights are otherwise inapplicable to this tender offer, the Purchaser or any affiliate or associate of the Purchaser and (iii) Avigen not having authorized, recommended, proposed, announced its intent to enter into or entered into an agreement with respect to or effected any merger, consolidation, liquidation, dissolution, business combination, acquisition of assets, disposition of assets, alternative strategy or relinquishment of any material contract or other right of Avigen or any comparable event or capital depleting transaction not in the ordinary course of busPoison Pill Rights Plan, or the Purchaser being satisfied in its reasonable discretion that the Poison Pill Rights are otherwise inapplicable to this tender offer, the Purchaser or any affiliate or associate of the Purchaser and (iii) Avigen not having authorized, recommended, proposed, announced its intent to enter into or entered into an agreement with respect to or effected any merger, consolidation, liquidation, dissolution, business combination, acquisition of assets, disposition of assets, alternative strategy or relinquishment of any material contract or other right of Avigen or any comparable event or capital depleting transaction not in the ordinary course of businPill Rights Plan, or the Purchaser being satisfied in its reasonable discretion that the Poison Pill Rights are otherwise inapplicable to this tender offer, the Purchaser or any affiliate or associate of the Purchaser and (iii) Avigen not having authorized, recommended, proposed, announced its intent to enter into or entered into an agreement with respect to or effected any merger, consolidation, liquidation, dissolution, business combination, acquisition of assets, disposition of assets, alternative strategy or relinquishment of any material contract or other right of Avigen or any comparable event or capital depleting transaction not in the ordinary course of busPoison Pill Rights are otherwise inapplicable to this tender offer, the Purchaser or any affiliate or associate of the Purchaser and (iii) Avigen not having authorized, recommended, proposed, announced its intent to enter into or entered into an agreement with respect to or effected any merger, consolidation, liquidation, dissolution, business combination, acquisition of assets, disposition of assets, alternative strategy or relinquishment of any material contract or other right of Avigen or any comparable event or capital depleting transaction not in the ordinary course of businPill Rights are otherwise inapplicable to this tender offer, the Purchaser or any affiliate or associate of the Purchaser and (iii) Avigen not having authorized, recommended, proposed, announced its intent to enter into or entered into an agreement with respect to or effected any merger, consolidation, liquidation, dissolution, business combination, acquisition of assets, disposition of assets, alternative strategy or relinquishment of any material contract or other right of Avigen or any comparable event or capital depleting transaction not in the ordinary course of business.

These provisions include «poison pills,» blank check preferreds, super voting common stocks, staggered elections for Boards of Directors, super majority voting provisions, preventing stockholders from convening special meetings, and having the company itself finance all of management's expenditures where there is a contest for control.

Often a board will seek to prevent a shareholder attempting to demonstrate this last point, for example, by implementing poison pills and other shareholder unfriendly devices, but that is nothing more than an implicit recognition by the board that it is true.

Unfortunately, the news then took a decided turn for the worse when INFS's management adopted a poison pill, which it euphemistically described as a «Shareholder Rights Plan.»

INFS's adoption of the poison pill is a disappointing step for management to take.

Next, search the house for pills or poisons that might be accessible to a puppy.

One type of poisoning for which vomiting is often prescribed occurs when your pet swallows a handful of a medication, such as aspirin, blood pressure pills, or too many of his or her own medications.

The aesthetic prize here is made unattainable in the way that the mythological original garden, and our supposed state of perfection is: both can only ever be considered through the notion of fallen humanity (thanks to St. Augustine for that poison pill).

My reason for grinding on the topic is rooted in my continued surprise at the susceptibility of the public to swallow the poison pill that their government is contemptible and worse if anything than the private sector.

Michigan Freedom Fund CEO, Terri Reid, commended the House for having defended free market principles by removing «every anti-choice poison pill» from the original Senate bill.

For example, imagine you're involved in an issue dealing with a poison pill.

Corporate raider Carl Icahn has reached an agreement with the management of CVR Energy under which the company will drop its poison pill provision, clearing the way for a potential $ 2.26 billion bid for the Sugar Land, Texas — based oil refiner.

For example, I would argue that Marty Lipton created the poison pill defense to hostile takeovers out of empathy for the businesspeople whose work was being ravaged by the takeover trolls of that aFor example, I would argue that Marty Lipton created the poison pill defense to hostile takeovers out of empathy for the businesspeople whose work was being ravaged by the takeover trolls of that afor the businesspeople whose work was being ravaged by the takeover trolls of that age.

The (previously untested) widespread expectation was that regulators would have less tolerance for poison pills adopted in the face of hostile bids with the mandated longer bid period.

Rights plans (i.e. poison pills) usually provide that in the event of a hostile bid all security holders (except for the bidder) are entitled to purchase additional shares at a deep discount.