The last paper maps I acquired were rudimentary regional overviews from car rental companies.
Bank of America and companies that it had acquired were among those that did this.
Many of the players he acquired were considered castoffs, and Brown has made good use of them.
None of those acquired were stars, and hardly any cost significant money, at least in baseball terms.
But after spending more than half my life in the city, what discernible skills I'd acquired were all but forgotten.
He added that the board made it clear to him that acquiring companies or being acquired were not necessarily on the agenda.
So, really, a lot of the 4,000 loans that we've acquired were about modifying or figuring out ways to keep these businesses in place.
The nicknames he acquired were legion: Elefantino, the Italian for Dumbo, because of his prominent ears; Nosferatu, because of his cadaverous appearance; Pac-man, for the way he gobbled up opponents on the mountain climbs.
"The kitchen had had no work done on it since the 1960s, the cupboards were falling apart and the appliances, which were second-hand when acquired, were not energy efficient," he said.
Among the firms they acquired were American Almond, a Brooklyn company that provided almond paste to bakeries, and Tech Com Inc., a Florida defense contractor that built navigation equipment for planes and ships.
Shots of Armadale, a Scottish vodka that Roc-A-Fella recently acquired, were served around a conference table to at least seven associates, who worked and chattered on cellphones amid the thumping bass of a mixed tape.
