Also on 19 December 2006, UK Watchdog the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers announced that the last date for each of Tata and CSN to announce revised offers for the Company, should they wish to do so, is 30 January 2007.

Takeovers of other companies brought new expertise in sonar arrays.

In 1976, Lipton authored " Corporate Takeovers: Tender Offers and Freezeouts " ( American Bar Association, National Institute on Corporate Takeovers ).

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Takeovers may also benefit from principal – agent problems associated with top executive compensation.

Takeovers also tend to substitute debt for equity.

Although, in the United Kingdom ( UK ), the pejorative noun " anorak " ( similar to the Japanese " otaku ", meaning a geek or enthusiast ) is often applied to people who obsessively pursue a particular hobby that is otherwise considered boring.

In April 2012, the UK Government made law changes to prevent the Channel Islands continued exploitation of LVCR, meaning that UK residents would have to pay the full VAT amount on items imported from the Channel Islands.

Another seemingly fitting explanation is that the term was derived from the UK English slang " the dog's bollocks " or " the mutt's nuts ", meaning " the absolute best ".

In the UK, the dessert-spoon and soup-spoon began to displace the table-spoon as the primary implement for eating from a bowl, at which point the name " table-spoon " took on a secondary meaning as a much larger serving spoon.

The USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark, China and Japan were silent on the matter, but the US and UK did point out that other countries ' comments on the meaning of 242 were simply their own views.

The UK and some other European countries tax authorities designate financial spread betting as gambling and not investing, meaning it is free from capital gains tax and stamp tax, despite the fact that its regulated as a financial product by the Financial Services Authority in the UK.

For instance, in the UK, between 2003 and 2005 there were 32, 100 ectopic pregnancies resulting in 10 maternal deaths ( meaning that 1 in 3, 210 women with an ectopic pregnancy died ).

The Lancet paper was later retracted, and Wakefield was found guilty by the General Medical Council of serious professional misconduct in May 2010, and was struck off the Medical Register, meaning he could no longer practise as a doctor in the UK.

This psychological barrier is reflected for example in the phrase, " the other side of the ring road ", sometimes used to designate the suburbs ; this is similar to Londoners referring to the rest of the country ( UK ) as " outside the M25 ", or Americans referring to being ' beyond the beltway ', meaning the rest of the USA outside Washington, D. C.

The Spanish name is widely used, particularly in the US but it is also known as lucerne in the UK, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, erba medica in Italy, meaning medical herb, luzerne in France, and lucerne grass in South Asian English.

This is, however, merely a curiosity and has had no impact on the general usage of the word city in the UK, which has unambiguously retained its urban meaning in British English.

In August 1995, the film — Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid — was toured around the UK, with Drummond and Cauty engaging each audience in debate about the burning and its meaning.

* (" read the bloody manual ") ( In some countries, e. g., the UK and Australia, this is a fractionally more polite alternative with identical meaning )

Piss in particular, however, may be used in non-excretory contexts ( pissed off, i. e. " angry ", in US English ; pissed, i. e. " drunk " in UK English ) that are often not considered particularly offensive, and the word also occurs several times with its excretory meaning in the King James Bible.

A variant, Setz dich auf deine fünf Buchstaben (" sit down on your five letters "), alludes to the vulgar use of the word Arsch, meaning " arse " ( UK ) or " ass " ( US ).

The route availability code is RA8, meaning any current UK locomotive can use the bridge, which was designed to accommodate heavier steam locomotives.

Presque rien ( meaning Almost Nothing, which is also the UK release title ; the U. S. title is Come Undone ) is a 2000 French-Belgian romantic drama film directed by Sebastien Lifshitz, set in Brittany, depicting a stormy holiday romance between two 18-year-olds and what remains of that relationship eighteen months later.

* Great Britain — a Heath Robinson contraption, named after the fantastical comic machinery illustrated by British cartoonist W. Heath Robinson, shares a similar meaning but predates the Rube Goldberg machine, originating in the UK in 1912.

In the UK a single-phase household supply may be rated 100 A or even 125 A, meaning that there is little need for 3 phase in a domestic or small commercial environment.

Shortly after releasing this bike, however, Wilf Green lost the MZ import franchise meaning an end to importer-modified special editions in the UK.

In the UK various authors began to develop this new market in the 18th century, giving a brief outline of the story and what was usually a longer commentary on its moral and practical meaning.

Apparently, they showed an earlier episode one week later, that had previously been unaired ( Painted Windows ), and CITV has not aired ReBoot since, meaning that the last 7 episodes of Season 3 and all of Season 4 have not been aired in the UK.

These, together with other nationally important external acquisitions, means that English Heritage is one of the largest publicly-accessible archives in the UK: 2. 53 million records are available online, including more than 426, 000 images.

Unlike many British building societies which grew large by acquisitions and mergers, the Society choose an organic form of growth, and proceeded to open branches throughout the UK.

The new schedule will see 40 % of all programming produced in Ireland, otherwise the schedule still focuses on US and UK acquisitions.

In early 2000, S & N expanded outside the UK via a number of acquisitions in Western Europe, growing sales to over 50 Mhl per annum.

Over the next nine years they made 28 acquisitions in Ireland, the UK, the USA, Hungary, Germany and Belgium.

Hands ' most notable acquisitions at Nomura included Annington Homes, as well as William Hill, the U. K. bookmaker, and Angel Trains, the UK.

Elsewhere in the UK, the Badgerline Group had similarly grown through acquisitions of former nationalised bus companies in England and Wales accumulating 12 companies such as Western National, from similar beginnings to GRT from privatisation of the Somerset-based bus company Badgerline, sold to its management in 1986.

A new corporate white, pink and indigo livery was introduced for all new low-floor buses, nicknamed ' Barbie ', now the UK bus company standard, while further bus company acquisitions continued.

In 1997, Praxis Critical Systems was also acquired, founded in Bath in 1983 to provide software and safety-engineering services, and in order to supplement the activities of its acquisitions, the company also opened new subsidiary offices, such as Altran Technologies UK, a multi-disciplinary and cross-industry engineering consultancy.

Further acquisitions in the UK and U. S. followed regularly and in 1992 Wolseley entered the Continental European market for the first time by buying a French plumbing supplies business called Brossette.

On Thursday 4 September 2008, it was announced that Penk had bought the entire share capital in the radio station 96. 2 The Revolution where he hosts the breakfast show and has big plans to make more acquisitions throughout the UK.

Its global presence has been reinforced through the acquisitions of leading online marketplaces Buy. com ( US ), Priceminister ( France ), Ikeda ( now Rakuten Brasil ), Tradoria ( now Rakuten Deutschland ) and Play. com ( UK ), and investments in Ozon. ru and AHA Life.

Following several more acquisitions Carnival is now part of NBCUniversal International Television Production alongside newer additions Monkey Kingdom, Working Title Television, Chocolate Media and Lucky Giant in the UK, Lark in Canada and Matchbox Pictures in Australia.

During the mid 1990's, the name GPT gradually disappeared in the UK ; and by October 1997 the joint venture, through a series of Siemens mergers and acquisitions in UK, evolved into ' Siemens GEC Communication Systems ' ( SGCS ), which later in 1998 merged to Siemens Business Communication Systems ( SBCS ) to form the largest division of Siemens AG-Siemens Communications.

In 2009 the company made further acquisitions including Kimco and Lackmans in the USA, Plural in Germany and several McColls retail site leases in the UK.

3e broadcasts a wide range of programming which is made up largely of United States, Australian and UK television acquisitions, while also airing some Irish content.

Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, LoveFilm has, in a few years, become the leading online DVD rental and streaming outlet in the UK and across Europe.