Word: acquirees
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GM is continuing to build a plant in China, but Smith notes that in other countries the economics no longer favor constructing new American-owned factories. "Today," he says, "there is available capacity that you can buy, or possibly you can acquire a company or merge." Other U.S. companies agree...
Next week Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting U.S. President ever to visit the Gaza Strip. This means he has an unprecedented opportunity to acquire unusual holiday gifts. The local equivalent of Martha's Vineyard's Black Dog store is reputedly the Tariq Brothers' shop on Al-Wehda Street in...
$250 million Amount Microsoft paid to acquire LinkExchange Inc., an Internet advertising firm, last month
This drum-beating, male-retreating, back-to-the-woods nonsense is still going on, by the way. Last February a hundred men retreated to a pine forest in Louisiana owned by Benedictine monks to acquire the ability to grieve. One reported that he had learned "to work my grief muscle...
I try to ease my fears of the future by telling myself there will always be people who acquire skills for purely intrinsic reasons: perhaps for the love of learning, the thrill of the challenge, that sort of crap. Surely, I say to myself, people can't be so shallow...