email_body: greenmail (GREEN-mayl) noun     The practice of buying a large quantity of a company's stock as a hostile    takeover measure, and then selling it to the company at a higher price.
  [From green (money) + mail (as in blackmail).]
  "Second, Northwest sees its economic stake in Continental rise rapidly    and is then allowed to sell most of its stock back to Continental in a    transaction that deserves to be called greenmail."
  Floyd Norris, Little to Cheer About For Public Shareholders,    The New York Times, Nov 7, 2000.
  This week's theme: words with color as metaphors.
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  Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
  -Richard Steele, author and editor
  
subject_line: A.Word.A.Day--greenmail
  