Olivia Petroleum was set up to acquire and develop an oil storage facility called Istamelsa in Cadiz, on Spain's south-western coast, but the Guardian understands that the project was never completed.
(Japan, too, acquired and developed a thriving sericulture a few centuries later).
This is an especially significant risk given the many years it can take to acquire the required skills and develop a network within the relatively insular concentration of Silicon Valley.
Its principles should be such that when they are embodied in the basic structure of society, people tend to acquire the corresponding sense of justice and develop a desire to act in accordance with its principles.
Trypanosomes selectively attack the heart so that up to one-third of people who acquire them progress and develop a form of heart disease known as a cardiomyopathy associated with heart aneurysms, arrhythmias, and even sudden death.
Hence direct spread seems unlikely, but prey surviving an initial attack that acquired the bacteria and developed a sepsis could act as a vector in the indirect bacterial spread to other lizards if other lizards ate those infected prey.
Saline implants accounted for 95% of Inamed's $189 million in 1999 sales, but the company has since diversified into other areas of cosmetic surgery, acquiring a collagen company and developing a surgical alternative to stomach-stapling which has been submitted for FDA approval.
As a young man, he acquired many fashionable and aristocratic friends, and developed a taste for country house society that never left him.
To achieve this while minimising sampling bias, we took the approach of acquiring large sets of image data and developed a batch-processing technique to generate distributions of BPD-MA fluorescence intensities by region.
Some of those who were initially 'passive recipients' of CAM information shifted roles to become 'pro-active seekers' as they acquired information about CAM and developed an interest in finding out more.
So he trained as a lawyer, acquired and developed his own chemical company, Ems Chemie, and became a multi-millionaire.
