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6. "French oil company Elf Aquitaine made a $51 billion counterbid this week to acquire competitor TotalFina, which had previously announced a hostile takeover attempt on Elf.
In a friendly takeover, the management teams of the acquiring and target companies negotiate the terms of the deal--covering issues such as how shares in the new company will be divided--and then both companies' boards of directors and shareholders approve it.
As far as California was concerned, the Mexican takeover was practically bloodless.
Chris Patten's memoirs could prevent a Murdoch takeover of the Wall Street Journal . Murdoch covets the newspaper, but Journal readers would not tolerate it in the hands of a man who is so willing to suppress news for financial gain.
(Any oil price increase caused by Iraq's takeover, he claimed, would help the United States by hurting Europe and Japan.)