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Safe harbor   /seɪf hˈɑrbər/   Listen
Safe harbor

noun
1.
The target company defends itself by acquiring a company so onerously regulated that it makes the target less attractive.





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"Safe harbor" Quotes from Famous Books



... at last to reach a port where at the worst the passengers can find rest, and where they may hope for a home better than any which they ever had in their old country. It is all very well to say that men and women had their choice whether they would reach the safe harbor ...
— Over the Teacups • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... extreme danger of shipwreck, the river being studded with rocks and running like a mill-race. But on reaching the quieter water below the rapid, they saw that the branch canon contained a rivulet, and that where the two streams united there was a triangular basin, offering a safe harbor. ...
— Overland • John William De Forest
... mystery; but give yourself no uneasiness; I'll be bound the child has made a safe harbor somewhere. She ...
— Natalie - A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds • Ferna Vale
... beautiful or safe harbor in the world than that of Santiago de Cuba, commercially speaking, as it is completely land-locked and protected on all sides from storms; but for the same reason it is as close and hot an anchorage as can be found in the tropics. An intelligent resident gave us 80 deg. Fahrenheit ...
— Due South or Cuba Past and Present • Maturin M. Ballou
... cautiously feel their way among stupendous walls, passing haltingly over bridges hung perilously between perpendicular cliffs by slender iron rods, or creep like mountain-cats from ledge to ledge, so that when they have reached safe harbor beside the little red depot they never fail to pant and wheeze like a tired, gratified dog beside his master's door. Aside from the coming and going of these trains, the town is silent as the ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland


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