poison pill

These are not the best of times for the poison pill.

Such plans are known in the financial world as "poison pills."

"I suppose then you've turned those poison pills over to him?"

More companies are giving shareholders a say on poison pills.

"I think he's trying to find a poison pill to kill it."

"I seem to recall you passing out poison pills not too long ago."

I am not trying to inject a poison pill into your article.

The poison pill was too much for the corporation to survive.

This strategy is often referred to as a "poison pill".

If Republicans are serious about legislation, they will drop these poison pills.

And Home still has its "poison pill" defense waiting in the wings if necessary.

The union provision is nothing less than a poison pill to kill reform.

The poison pill and other proposed changes will be decided at a Northwest board meeting next week.

With a poison pill provision, those moves would be more costly.

He called medical savings accounts "a poison pill" for the legislation.

First, the company lowered the threshold at which parts of its poison pill would come into play.

The poison pill would give Irving shareholders the right to buy more stock in the new company at half price.

Late last year it installed a poison pill defense.

Another danger to reform comes in the form of "poison pill" amendments.

To most lawmakers, the word consolidation seems more like a poison pill than a remedy.

With the poison pill removed, shareholders now have the upper hand, experts said.

Perhaps most important, there's a poison pill of sorts.

Disney has no so-called poison pill to help it block such an attempt.

The idea is to deter a buyer, and poison pills serve that purpose well.

"The Republicans in the House are presented with a poison pill."