The reason for the coup is an imminent takeover by "democratic" populist forces organizing the underclasses.

It was an ill-advised foray, motivated by exaggerated fears of an imminent Communist takeover.

And what they heard was supposed to be confidential: it was inside information, as valuable to investors as a tip about an imminent takeover.

It was on the same steps, eight years ago, that Bill Clinton celebrated the imminent takeover of the White House from another Bush.

It then takes the viewer inside United Flight 93 as terrorists begin the hijacking, and finally shows a passenger calling his family to inform them of the imminent takeover.

The Quedlinburg church feared the imminent takeover by the conquering Russians of what they considered rightfully theirs as restitution.

S G Warburg was rumoured to be pushing the stock, citing an imminent takeover.

Mr. Boesky admitted in testimony that he had traded suitcases stuffed with cash for confidential information about imminent takeovers.

The parachutes were lucrative severance payments that corporate boards instituted for chief executives whose tenures were threatened by imminent takeovers of their companies.

Analysts and investment bankers say that other stocks of banks in the New York area may already be trading at higher prices than even an imminent takeover warrants.