CAIRO — As other investors flee Egypt because of worries about the country's rocky transition to democracy, Chinese companies are pouring money into Egyptian projects in the hopes of accessing a huge domestic market and acquiring a base for exports to the Middle East.
In the Western health care literature, "cultural competence" [ 31] has been identified as valuing and understanding other cultures, and acquiring a base understanding of the norms, preferences and biases that can influence effective patient/provider interaction.
Similarly, education is successful when students acquire a broad base from which they can continually generate new skills and capacities, including the ability to find meaning and pleasure in their work, and in their private and public lives.
By this means, a person may acquire a broad base of experience and knowledge in a certain domain.
Other companies aren't going so far as to relocate their headquarters, a process known as inversion that often requires them to acquire a company based elsewhere.
In December 2014, Yahoo announced it would acquire a company based in Munich called Media Group One.
With increase in growth temperature, microbial organisms tend to acquire base A and lose base C while keeping the contents of bases T and G relatively constant [ 24], and there is a clear link between a particular pattern of codon usage and the elevated growth temperature [ 25].
"Buying a company to acquire an installed base of customers is faulty and creates a digital divide rather than a coalescence of cultures and technology," she says.
From the time Groupon first sought to go public, its story has been built on enormous growth, as it raced to acquire a daunting customer base.
Of course BT are not alone in looking to acquire a larger customer base.
