Word: argument
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...company up for sale in March when they originally agreed to acquire Warner. If that had been found to be true, Time would have been obligated under Delaware law to seek the maximum immediate return to shareholders by auctioning the company to the highest bidder. Paramount's argument that Time's directors were selling the company to Warner rested partly on the fact that the exchange ratio of the proposed stock swap would have given Warner stockholders 62% of the shares of the combined company. In Paramount's view, that situation amounted to a transfer of corporate control...
Allen noted that Paramount dismisses "this claim of 'culture' as being nothing more than a desire to perpetuate or entrench existing ((Time)) management disguised in a pompous, highfalutin' claim." Wrote he: "I understand the argument . . . But I am not persuaded that there may not be instances in which the law might recognize as valid a perceived threat to a 'corporate culture' that is shown to be palpable (for lack of a better word), distinctive and advantageous...
Justification for preferential treatment is highly problematic. One argument asserts that 400 years of enslavement entitles Blacks today to societal advantages, similar to the damages awarded to Japanese-Americans interred during World...
...Cardenas' radical P.R.D., to win an election to restore the ruling party's lost credibility. Others theorize that Salinas has a vision of Mexico that does not include a monopoly on power by a single party. By forcing the increasingly sclerotic P.R.I. into an opposition role, goes the argument, the defeat in Baja will eventually lead to a more resilient political system. Perhaps. But what no one disputes is that the state of the economy was a major factor behind Salinas' decision to loosen P.R.I. control...
Frequently heard among Chinese students is the argument that sanctions would only hurt the Chinese people...