They have also acquired plenty of new customers during the past decade, says Franklin Santarelli of Fitch Ratings, an expensive process that should reap rewards during the next one.
Along the way he acquired plenty of other creative friends, including El Bulli chef Ferran Adrià, molecular gastronome and the Abraham to Heston Blumenthal's Isaac.
In five years of running a celebrity blog, it is safe to say that Hilton, real name Mario Lavandeira, has acquired plenty of enemies.
Gaudio and his versatile one-handed backhand have acquired plenty of admirers on the circuit over the years, but his nerves had never allowed him to advance past the fourth round of a Grand Slam event.
But Mr. Sheinkopf, who advised Mr. McCall in 2002 in his successful primary bid for governor and credits his own goading of Mr. Cuomo with helping knock him out of that contest, said Mr. Cuomo had acquired plenty of self-control in the years since.
The leggy Rockettes are still there, as is the Nativity scene (complete with donkeys, camels, sheep, Wise Men, and mellifluous voice-over), but in the seventy-five years since its inception the show has acquired plenty of snazzy numbers and lots of high-tech razzle-dazzle, with new features introduced every year.
Easy-to-acquire mortgages, plenty of open land and generous zoning provided new homes to scores of buyers.
Like Hotline, this company sounds to us like less of a company and more of a feature, but features get acquired, and plenty of people seem to "get" this one.
Many biotechnology companies have already paid plenty to acquire Celera's information.See article: Can science live happily with profit AstraZeneca, a large British drug company, announced a collaborative project with Orchid BioSciences, an American firm, that will use the information on the human genome to produce tailor-made drugs.
