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It's a remarkable example of two different priestly appropriations of the same event, two different religious takeovers of a political fact.
And on and on and on past the jealous relatives, humanizing the corporation, hostile takeovers, the obligatory love interest.. aargh...let's just say this movie is virtually unwatchable.
The way they deal with various problems such as takeovers, memberships and general running of the club, not to mention the car parking dilemma was well scripted.
There is interesting and effective use of stop-motion when the takeovers are in progress, and loving care is lavished on all of the creature and make-up effects.
Even the potentially cheesy sub-story line of corporate takeovers is believable, and you find yourself cheering at the end!
Indeed, during this period, the US often could not defend its interests: the Soviet Union acquired nuclear weapons; communist takeovers occurred in China, Cuba, and half of Vietnam; the Korean War ended in a stalemate; and revolts in Hungary and Czechoslovakia were repressed.
In the United States, for example, insiders enjoy protections from takeovers that, according to a substantial body of empirical evidence, actually decrease company value.
Indirectly, it concerns all of us, for the choice made by Arcelor’s shareholders is far from being an exception; on the contrary, it reveals the deep economic and social significance of corporate takeovers of this type.
America’s grievances regarding China’s behavior, from its treatment of intellectual property to its implicit and explicit subsidies and policy-motivated takeovers of foreign industrial jewels, are essentially shared by its G7 partners.
Moreover, governments are applying more strictly existing regulatory provisions concerning the vetting of takeovers by foreign firms.
(The Chinese takeovers of South African and Nigerian textile industries are good examples of this strategy.
Banning cross-border takeovers, restricting trade, and living with currency wars will hurt the US more than any other country.
Some existing businesses will fend off disruptive threats, including through takeovers; others will adjust (for example, Walmart recently announced an expansion of its financial-services offerings); but many may well prove insufficiently agile.
As products of revolutionary military takeovers, these secular nationalist regimes failed to produce genuine popular legitimacy and have had to fall back on the dynastic succession practiced by the regimes they toppled.
Governments that worry about the transfer of critical technological know-how to foreigners are, in turn, free to enact rules prohibiting their firms from investing abroad or restricting foreign takeovers at home.
Many German workers believe, as one trade unionist recently lamented, that takeovers are being driven by a philosophy of “buy it, strip it, and flip it.”
Total haircuts don’t happen historically – except in the wake of communist takeovers – but it is hard to imagine that private creditors won’t suffer huge losses in net present value.
State ownership is low, and is viewed as aberrational when it occurs (such as the government takeovers of General Motors and Chrysler in recent years, from which officials are rushing to exit).
Directors lacked that power in the early 1980’s, when a wave of such hostile takeovers took place; but by the end of the decade, directors had the rules changed in their favor, to allow them to reject offers for nearly any reason.
The European Commission also opened up the market for corporate control by vetoing the barriers against hostile takeovers that most EU governments had erected.
Fortunately, there is also precedent for escaping populist takeovers.
Weak institutions mean many countries, such as Malaysia, struggle to resolve political crises; in Thailand, army takeovers have become the modus vivendi.
Small states are better at public policy adjustments, freeing up labor markets, establishing a solid framework for competition, and facilitating cross-border takeovers and mergers.
Defenders of these ill-fated cross-border takeovers worry that a sinister whiff of the twentieth century’s worst moments is in the air.
In the United States, the investment banking business has been consolidated with the forced takeovers of Bear Stearns by JP Morgan and of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America.
Our business leaders no longer fear shakedowns and takeovers by the president’s greedy family members and cronies.
A continent once afflicted by military takeovers has slowly but surely implanted stable democracies.
In the meantime, China’s securities and insurance regulators have cracked down on activities like hostile takeovers.
Thus, in the US, corporate influence makes it difficult to obtain long-needed reforms that would eliminate barriers to takeovers and remove legal impediments to the ability of shareholders to replace company directors.
But, while Germany’s Foreign Trade and Payments Act protects against takeovers in the defense industry (though the law needs strengthening) elsewhere Germany has no system for examining investments by SWFs that may be strategically motivated.