Sentences with phrase «poison pill proposals»
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said on Oct. 10 that they are «poison pill proposals» that could sabotage the talks.
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First, it suggests Canada has been too quick in rejecting American proposals as a «red line,» or «poison pill.»
«I'm becoming more and more of the view that the proposals we're seeing are poison pills,» said Dan Ujczo, an Ohio - based international trade lawyer with the firm Dickinson Wright.
Some even say the proposal is, in reality, a «poison pill» designed to cause talks to fail and allow the US to claim that Mexico and Canada were inflexible negotiating partners.
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.
New York City's housing commissioner lambasted a proposal from Gov. Andrew Cuomo to alter the process of allocating affordable housing bonds as a «poison pill» and said the long - standing way of doing things was working fine.
City housing commissioner Vicki Been referred to the governor's proposal as a «poison pill» and de Blasio testified against it during a hearing in Albany earlier this year.
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.
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.
Nevertheless, our response was to offer a compromise proposal: modify the poison pill to allow anyone to acquire as much stock as they like, however, neutralize the voting power on all shares of Avigen stock above a specified threshold.
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.
This may change in future since legislative proposals are currently being considered to provide shareholders with the right to decide how long poison pills will remain in effect, and the regulators would intervene only in extraordinary circumstances.