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It is not something I earned or acquired or bought. It is a gift. It is something that was given to me -- just like the color of my skin.

I think they've turned the corner. They've acquired a tremendous amount of talent.

Kwame has been a first-class individual since we acquired him and this is just my way of trying to accommodate him, because I think he deserves to play.

Over the past 12 months, Noble has acquired or begun construction on more than $400 million in lodging assets. In 2005, we added more than 1,800 rooms, six signature restaurants and two retail Starbucks licensed stores to our portfolio. Noble also added two championship golf courses and began construction on our first luxury resort lodge and spa.

Our results validate the expectations we have when we acquired the business and reinforced our convictions that we have a model for ongoing profitability,

Our works were acquired in a legal way according to the practice at the time. Today, the situation is quite different. The finds evidently now stay in the countries. The issue today relates to the acquisition of new pieces.

Play solid defense, show the ability to steal bases and just perform well. Offensively, he's got some power and runs some deep counts. When we acquired him we knew he could be a solid fourth outfielder.

reaping substantial profits from (the recordings) without ever having acquired any rights in such recordings.

Paris Charles has truly been an asset to this administration, bringing vast knowledge acquired through 28 years in the mining industry and a sincere personal commitment to mine safety.

Peace can only be acquired through economic development to eliminate poverty and despair and through dialogue and understanding

Our mobile handset unit delivered strong and profitable growth, and, more importantly, the acquired PC business was profitable worldwide,

Oracle is an applications company and it only makes sense that they will want to eventually move acquired customers over to their technology stack,

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.

I wish somebody told me don't take candy from strangers when I made my first tax-free Internet purchase. I wish that I had remembered the first one's free, which is how dealers make new junkies. I wish that every cliche humanity acquired to protect itself from its history of bamboozlement and trickery was sewn on every shirt pocket by a smart mom.

I think I've been skeptical of violent passion for a long time. I think 'Pinkerton' is about that a lot - seeing how, every time I've felt really passionate for someone, as soon as I 'acquire' them or feel like I've acquired them, the passion goes away.

I think the technology Ascend has acquired gives them the lead over existing data networking companies in offering full-featured SS7 technology. Stratus offers SS7 technology on a high-end computer platform, whereas Cisco offers more low-end signaling.

Joint Pro is a product that we are confident will do very well in the marketplace, and the assets we've acquired include formulas for upcoming, related products that will make this an excellent line for us. We've spoken to a number of physicians who carried Joint Pro and they have patients who consistently ask for the product.

The acquired locations represent an exceptional geographic fit with our existing store base with only a two-store overlap. Additionally, the locations meet our size and market demographics criteria, since the typical B.C. Moore store is located in a market area of less than 50,000 people, is strip shopping center based, and has an average of approximately 14,300 selling square feet. We expect to realize operating synergies as these stores are converted to Peebles stores, incorporated into our existing distribution system and managed from our South Hill, Virginia administrative offices.

The acquired business has now been profitable for three consecutive quarters, in line with the board's expectations, although regional performance has varied.

We put a player on waivers who wasn't playing and acquired a player that's played more and is younger. Let's see what he can do.

We ended up with Air France because they acquired KLM, and we owned KLM. We still own it because it's still undervalued and it's profitable.

We encourage Phoenix to be more active. They need to do that. With these, we will have acquired over 3,200 bait stations since May of 2003. We'll probably run out within a week. Our program is coming to a close after these 350 are gone.

We could not have acquired a more perfect player for us than Edgar Renteria.

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.

Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.

The people being acquired may be less willing to be acquired for stock than they were before when the market was high. The depressed stock prices cuts both ways. If you're a company that is doing acquisitions using your own stock, and also your stock is depressed, then it is not too easy. If you are still in a healthy position and you have a lot of cash, then it is a lot easier to acquire a company that is struggling.

Tommy's brand is still vibrant to a certain extent with consumers, but it has been failing for some time, not only with the brand itself and what it stands for with the consumer in terms of leading-edge styling and fashion, but also failing financially. The brand is very weak now, but if it's acquired by the right entity I believe the brand can be turned around and can gain its strength back.

We began systems integration in the fourth quarter and expect to complete integration of Harrah's customer-relationship capabilities -- our Total Rewards player-loyalty program and revenue- and yield-management systems -- into the Caesars properties in April 2006. Based upon our experience with other acquired properties, we anticipate these capabilities will enable the Caesars facilities to benefit from increased market share and visitation.

The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.

When Jeffrey Loria said publicly not too long after we acquired Paul that he was not a summer rental, he meant it.

While technical and clinical information is acquired through a residency program, we are basically committed to a lifetime of ongoing education.

UBS acquired the property because it's in a densely populated area and has a strong roster of tenants. We see it as a long-term stable investment.

When completed, this acquisition will expand our salvage auction business into the mid-Atlantic region. It's a good fit for Impact's expansion strategy in that it allows us to enter as a market leader with the only salvage auction physically located in northeast Pennsylvania, as well as filling in our coverage area between recently acquired salvage auctions located across Ohio and our existing strong presence in the country's Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.

We basically focused on the 9-acre parcel the Nation acquired in October because that's the only piece currently under the Nation's control.

We always tried to be sensitive with the land acquisition proposals. All the land is acquired for Gilmore School and the Magnet School, which was a much larger land acquisition and was to be our Renaissance Project.

The one thing that Qwest has is its local franchise, and over the next two years it's going to become increasingly embattled as (cable company) Comcast starts rolling out more aggressively with their digital voice service. I don't think they get acquired at all.

While hormone resistance can likely be acquired in multiple ways, it appears we may have uncovered a general contributor to hormone resistance in prostate cancer.

Without question, we will ask for the return of all pieces acquired on the black market. When the proof is certain, we will demand it. We are already imposing huge pressure. And not only on the Getty,

With the closing of this acquisition, PMC-Sierra now has a broad storage semiconductor product line with more integrated end-to-end solutions for our enterprise storage customers. We have acquired a highly skilled team and are moving quickly to integrate our operating and development efforts so that we can provide customers with innovative storage solutions while at the same time improving the overall profitability of the acquired business.

Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.

The government's approach to demobilization allows paramilitary commanders to put on a show of disarming some troops, ... But the government has not truly attempted to dismantle their mafia-like networks, seize their illegally acquired fortunes or ensure a full cessation of abuses.

Yes, we have acquired the services of Mr Bradley Stewart... we thought he would be the ideal replacement for the previous head coach.

You can't control your popularity; I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. If I was potato chips, I could go a lot more places, but I'm not.

You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.

Two conditions of self-sustaining growth are that a country has acquired a cadre of domestic entrepreneurs and administrators and, secondly, that it has attained to adequate savings and taxable capacity.

We have acquired property in Tyler with the thought of expanding our branch network there.

With respect to the privacy of himself and his family, I'm not going to make any comment on his condition, other than the fact we believe it's in his best interest to put him on the disabled list. The doctors acquired all the information they needed.

What they are finding so far internationally, is that when they have gone into a country and acquired or partnered with a successful established retailer they have done very well.

We might have lost some of our most seasoned and experienced players but we have acquired some senior players too during the off-season. We have also been i9n camp for the past five to six weeks preparing for this African Safari, so I am confident that the team has great potential.

We will set up something with the mayor after we are served. I don't know what we would have to do to show good faith. We are sensitive to trying to do the right thing. We negotiated with this guy for nearly two years before we acquired the property.

We will work to ensure this transition will be as seamless as possible for all customers, suppliers and valued partners. In addition, we will extend the opportunity for employment to all Ryerson employees in the acquired locations. We value their expertise and believe they will complement and strengthen our existing Energy Alloys team. Additionally, they share our mission for superior customer service and have an outstanding reputation for exceeding customer expectations.

We feel very fortunate to have acquired someone of Sandy's tremendous reputation and experience in the institutional markets. She is a great addition to our team as we grow Oppenheimer Investment Management LLC going forward.

We saw the gap that is critical for us to fill and Dimension was acquired as part of that strategy.

We see in Eddie a player with great potential, and certainly the injury put him back. He acquired a reputation that people expected a lot out of him, and I'm not copping out of that. We do expect a lot of Eddie, but at the same time he's a young player and he's getting there. His best soccer is probably for the next World Cup in all honestly. He's got a bright future, and we're hopeful he's moving forward.

We saw this as an opportunity to explore a passion we had and leverage some of the skills we had acquired at our day job. One day we were thinking about how we could teach people to play and become better ourselves.

Towards the end of 2005, Ineos acquired Innovene, the petrochemicals arm of BP, for $9 billion. It quadrupled the size of Ineos overnight and brought with it some of the world's largest industrial sites.

Vigilance is justifiably high. We know there is a certain exposure from information acquired in Italy and abroad.

We are very excited to have acquired such attractive oil and gas properties. The combination of a substantial increase in production and reserves, dedicated equipment to support our drilling activities and strong commodity prices positions the Company for strong growth in 2006.

Boston has many questions to answer. They have to convince me that they were working completely in good faith. Now they have the knowledge that they have acquired stolen artifacts. Are they worried? I don't know. Do they want an agreement? I don't know. But, they do have a moral obligation to give back the items to the victim, which in this case is Italy.

BMW has lost something like $6 billion since they acquired Rover, and they are getting rid of something that has been losing $2 million a day and been a specific problem in terms of the drag on management time.

Every man desires to acquire Ananda. From where can Ananda be acquired ? Faith alone can win Ananda.

As I said, we had acquired some aircraft, and the same propaganda team, Guatemalan propaganda team, prepared leaflets, which were in several phases.

CompuServe hasn't been in a huge growth mode since AOL acquired it. AOL is looking for more advertising and trying to bring in more customers.

EMC has acquired Smarts (an event automation and network systems management software vendor), but we don't see them as a competitor...although it is one of the companies we watch very closely in terms of what their long-term ambitions could be.

The trend toward powerful platforms that deliver four or more functions continued as enterprises continued to simplify their infrastructure and vendors moved to grow revenue and increase account control. Market consolidation also continued in 2005 as strong platform players acquired promising software providers that had not yet reached critical mass in terms of distribution and revenue.

The skills I acquired in Southeastern Louisiana University, Thrifty Drugs, Pacific Mutual, along with knowing the history, behavior and local staff, helped make Golden Eagle a success story.

These content companies go in and out of consolidation phases. There are periods when they go independent, and periods where they're acquired by bigger conglomerates. This is one of those periods.

Science is often misrepresented as the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory. Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.

acquired various firearms and engaged in weapons training and physical training in preparation to fight a jihad.

The more equipment is acquired and produced by a repressive regime, the more important anonymity is.

During the fourth quarter our revenue growth was driven by a combination of fleet expansion and improved revenue per mile. We benefited from opening new service centers, increasing service in existing centers, and a full quarter of revenue from Edwards Bros. , which we acquired in August 2005.

compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein had acquired nuclear-weapons capability.

Companies who have acquired these rights of course deserve to be protected against this so-called 'ambush marketing' by free-riders.

A seller with lawfully acquired market power including market power arising from an act of God can charge any price the market will bear, so long as this seller does not join with others to set prices or restrict supply.

The bucket doesn't get filled up without the drops. We have acquired 23,000 acres, that leaves 130,000 (acres) to go.

As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.

As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.

Young people are increasingly viewing sexual activity and relationships as commodities to be acquired and discarded. Clearly, people's sexual cultures are changing and better and more effective sex education is required to keep up.

This consolidation really started in the mid-1990s but picked up speed and is still continuing. In the last 15 years, about 150 companies have been acquired or merged. Most of the consolidation is confined to the top 10 builders, who are acquiring companies.

This is a monumental achievement for NASA JPL and the space community. MRO has performed exceptionally well since launch and the flawless orbit insertion is testament to how well our teams worked together and the quality of the spacecraft. Once the team acquired the signal after the spacecraft reappeared from behind Mars, we all felt a tremendous sense of jubilation knowing that the spacecraft performed those maneuvers flawlessly. NASA and JPL now have another healthy satellite in orbit around Mars.

Also, students have moved away from home, where they have acquired some immunity to the bugs around them, and into accommodation shared with people from all over the country and abroad, where they will come into contact with a new pool of potential infections.

They need more personnel and they need more assets, ... Not only have they acquired more tasks, but the order and magnitude of those tasks is multiplying exponentially.

There isn't much question that the person who obtained the WikiLeaks cables from a classified U.S. government network broke U.S. law and should expect to face the consequences. The legal rights of a website that publishes material acquired from that person, however, are much more controversial.

There is no trade or pending trade despite reports to the contrary and we expect him to be here this year and at a minimum, next year. Since we acquired him from the Yankees, there has been endless speculation about where he might be headed. We have been consistent in saying that he is a piece of the puzzle we are putting together.

There's been a cultural change, a perspective that merging with another company or being acquired by an outside company is no longer a sign of weakness, or of business failing somewhere along the line. It's more of a realization that it's part of growth in the modern world.

At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The extraordinary aesthetic of the natural world is not obvious to someone who never leaves the inner city. Appreciation of the elegance and power of physical law is an acquired taste.

As we prepare for the growth of the series in conjunction with our new $3 million prize structure, this development will also level the playing field for new teams entering the series. All of the set-up data that teams acquired in the past will have to be reassessed.

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill, and fortitude of the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.

About a year ago we heard the same rumor again, so Julie and I met with Norman and Hal, and other people at Concord, just to get acquainted. At our first meeting, they expressed great respect and appreciation. When they finally acquired Fantasy, we figured the time was right to see if we could work together.

Absolutely, not true. We have offers going back since Lehman acquired the property.

It's easily acquired nine miles down the road in Bryson City, but people don't want it here.

It was a turf track that we inherited and it just didn't work. We didn't know it didn't work until shortly after we acquired Hollywood Park.

It's a bit offensive that 50 percent of the people they've chosen to feature as being 'gun owners' are people who are obviously breaking the law and probably acquired their firearms illegally. When you look at the statistics, it's only a fraction of 1 percent of the 'gun owners' in the country who ever use firearms in an illegitimate way.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

It's going to be a big season for me, ... The league's going to be a different story. And Nashville acquired a few players who play a similar style to me. It's going to be a challenge making the cut again.

Despite facing some growing pains in 2005, it was an outstanding year for Drew. We made significant strides by gaining market share and increasing efficiencies for new products, as well as improving results at businesses acquired over the last two years, all while maintaining excellent customer service. We continue to invest heavily in growth in terms of capital improvements, product quality programs, and most importantly, in people, and we are optimistic that these investments will continue to yield favorable returns.

Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico.

The New York Times allegations are wrong in all their details. The claim that the two BND officers had acquired Saddam Hussein's plan to defend the Iraqi capital and handed it to the U.S.A. one month before the war's outbreak, as is stated in the New York Times, is false.

That level of production growth is very hard for a company of Chevron's size to achieve. A big part of that has to be from what they acquired with Unocal. Many of their peers are having a difficult time just getting single-digit growth.

Everyone's expecting, and should expect, that these companies will continue to post very impressive gains. A lot of these companies are still growing 30-50 percent per quarter. There will be other issues that people will be looking at. With Yahoo!, it may not be just revenues, it may be page views. With an Amazon, it may not just be revenues, it may be number of new customers they've acquired over the last quarter.