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  2. Shareholder rights plan - Wikipedia

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    A shareholder rights plan, colloquially known as a "poison pill", is a type of defensive tactic used by a corporation's board of directors against a takeover.. In the field of mergers and acquisitions, shareholder rights plans were devised in the early 1980s to prevent takeover bids by limiting a shareholder's right to negotiate a price for the sale of shares directly.

  3. What's J.C. Penney's 'Poison Pill'? - AOL

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    News broke Tuesday that the company will extend its "poison pill" until 2017 and lowered the ownership threshold. J.C. Penney has had a rough year already, with a vague holiday sales announcement ...

  4. Wrecking amendment - Wikipedia

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    In legislative debate, a wrecking amendment (also called a poison pill amendment or killer amendment) is an amendment made by a legislator who disagrees with the principles of a bill and who seeks to make it useless (by moving amendments to either make the bill malformed and nonsensical, or to severely change its intent) rather than directly opposing the bill by simply voting against it.

  5. Bitfarms adopts second 'poison pill' after Canadian tribunal ...

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    The new 'poison pill', known as the shareholders rights plan, will trigger when against "creepy" bids accumulating more than 20% of the Bitfarms' common shares, the Canadian company said.

  6. Poison pill - Wikipedia

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    Poison pill may refer to: Suicide pill, a physical pill for suicide by poison; Poison pill amendment or wrecking amendment, an addition to a legislative bill that renders it ineffective; Shareholder rights plan, also called a poison pill, a subclass of anti-takeover provisions that dilutes the attacker's power

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  8. Air Products & Chemicals Adopts Poison Pill - AOL

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    The Air Products rights plan is akin to a poison pill, which is structured to make an unsolicited takeover of the company prohibitively expense. In this case, the warrants received as part of the ...

  9. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.