Bad news starts to surround Zembla-4 and Rilke eventually informs Ingram that his proposed takeover of Calenture-Deutz is now off.

A European Union court overturned a ruling today by the union's executive body that had blocked a proposed corporate takeover on antitrust grounds.

After all, US Airways' proposed takeover would reduce the two airlines' combined jet fleet about 10 percent.

Earlier this month, Koppers filed a lawsuit against Beazer charging that it had violated Federal securities laws in its proposed takeover of Koppers.

Continued public pressure later forced News Corporation to cancel its proposed takeover of the British telecommunications company BSkyB.

The second is the proposed takeover of the Bakun project by the contractor, Sime Engineering.

British Aerospace said it had requested more time to consider its proposed takeover in light of the commission's decision.

Oracle has spent $54 million on its proposed takeover of PeopleSoft, about $10 million of that in the recent quarter.

The antitrust division will also be dealing with airline mergers, including American Airlines' proposed takeover of Trans World Airlines.

Dime, the fifth-biggest savings institution in the United States, said it did not take the action in response to any proposed takeover.