The finance division had made a buy-out offer to the owners, only to be outbid by the Globecast corporation.

Ms. Chiang said 4 or 5 of the 15 remaining tenants in the building had agreed to buy-out offers and would soon leave.

After the fire, the value of her ranch and business further plummeted to a level more closely reflecting the original buy-out offer from the Air Force.

Contestants implore the models, by name, to be "good" to them by revealing the low numbers that lead the Banker to increase his buy-out offer.

After 27.5 years with the New York Times, editor Stout took advantage of a buy-out offer in 2009 and left the newspaper.

Kleinwort has advised that the buy-out offer looks too cheap, but that in the absence of others shareholders should consider it seriously.

While most Sugarlanders accepted buy-out offers, a few had to be forced out via condemnation suits.

In March 2012, it had been reported that the company rejected a multi-million buy-out offer from The Carlyle Group.

"Two months after I started, I got a buy-out offer of $1 million," he said in an interview in New York.

In 1998, Ziff-Davis approached Ben with a buy-out offer.