acquisition
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Höttges has called T-Mobile’s 2020 acquisition of Sprint his greatest achievement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
If you contributed to the original purchase and have been a bona fide co-owner since the acquisition, that history could affect the outcome.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
Raymond also personally negotiated the company’s 1999 acquisition of Mobil for about $80 billion, then the largest industrial combination in history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
When rumors swirled in March 2021 that Rocket Lab planned to go public via a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company, Vector Acquisition Corp.,
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
These were the obligatory so-called Studienreisen, or study tours, their goal being the students’ acquisition of the necessary grounding in “the modern developments in Physics” that was simply unattainable in the United States.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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