acquisitions
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A dry martini is an acquired taste, and more than a few acquisitors are inspired by an eagerness to collect a larger cultural inheritance.
From Slate • Mar. 14, 2013
Spurred by the weak dollar, foreign companies have become some of the most aggressive acquisitors.
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Virginia Murray Corporations fighting off takeover bids have devised sundry exotic defenses: concocting so-called poison pills of potential debt, filing protracted lawsuits or amassing the stock of would-be acquisitors.
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The wealthy and the powerful have invested in art from time immemorial, though it is true that the great collections have been amassed by acquisitors possessed of taste and love for the objects they buy.
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In a very real sense, the problems of management were extremely personal and correspondingly concentrated in the hands of skillful acquisitors.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott