Word: acquirees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard has no incentive to acquire Radcliffeif it were a financial liability. Harvardcurrently enjoys the use of many Radcliffebuildings--like the Quad Houses and HillesLibrary--free of charge.
Your report on shopping by computer [THE INTERNET ECONOMY, July 20] noted the dispute between Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble over which one is the "Earth's Biggest Bookstore." Those of us who are independent booksellers find their claims need clarification. The 2.5 million-book database that both Amazon and Barnes...
An obsession with the lottery has even come to acquire an actual psychological label, "lottery fantasy syndrome," a term coined by Los Angeles therapist Robert Butterworth to explain the depression that occurs when ticket buyers pin all their hopes on winning, and don't. "It doesn't matter if you...
LONDON: What's in a name? If the name is Rolls-Royce, $66 million -- and that's cheap. Like two Dobermans at a single slab of steak, German automakers BMW and Volkswagen AG have completed the tearing apart of the revered luxury car line: Volkswagen gets Bentley, and BMW gets...
Reality is not exactly the first word that springs to mind when thinking of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po. The first television show explicitly designed for the one- to two-year-old set, it centers on the comical activities of four fuzzy creatures who speak in baby talk...