Unocal Corp.’s $456 million squeeze-out bid for the 35% of Pure Resources Inc. (PRI) it doesn’t control has earned the griping of minority shareholders, reportedly enough to sink the stock offer as it stands. And El Segundo, Calif.-based Unocal has made it clear: If it does not get the threshold of 90% of PRI shareholders-tendering it set, it will maintain the structural status quo.

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