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Now poison-pill plans and other scorched-earth strategies to frustrate takeovers--like the sale of valuable assets or the assumption of insane levels of debt--seem to violate the principle that those who own the company, the shareholders, should be able to decide what to do with it.
A lack of trust can frustrate agency attempts to implement major changes in employees' day-to-day working environment.
You're absolutely right about companies' trying to frustrate and annoy their customers.
Almost every paper has a different angle: the Journal notes that the announcement will frustrate efforts to prevent North Korea from testing its own missiles; the NYT says the announcement was done in tandem with a harsh public critique of the United States for selling military technology to Taiwan; the Post puts the missile test in the ninth paragraph of a larger story on increased sorties over the Taiwan Strait by Chinese and Taiwanese military jets.
“Dictionary definitions are not always helpful to the court, and slavish adherence to these should be avoided if the result is to frustrate the intention of the legislation,” he said.