'One of the effects of the blank check preferred stock authorized by the Charter amendments might be to enable our Board of Directors to render it more difficult to, or discourage an attempt to, obtain control of us by means of a merger, tender offer, proxy contest or otherwise, and thereby protect the continuity of present management.'
Can't be stated much more succinctly-executed in the interest of job security above all else. As Alf stated yesterday, shareholders are plank walking with a sword on their back.