1, Family control would prevent any hostile takeover or greenmail attempt.

2, Greenmail is the practice of buying larger share of a company's stock to threaten a hostile takeover and reselling it to the company at a price above market value.

3, The ABC company institute themselves a victim of greenmail when they realized they had bought back their have at a much higher price.

4, But mostly we made things like greenmail and leveraged buyouts and they made, well, a lot of stuff — widgets the world loved.

5, The ABC company found themselves a victim of greenmail when they realized they had bought back their stock at a much higher price.