How did Robert Moses acquire so much power from a position that officially had almost no power at all?
It is amazing how powerful the message becomes, how much traction it acquires, so much so that in the minds of many Neymar's genius is proven.
But they aren't just secretaries; they are legal secretaries, and they have acquired so much expertise over the years, they are too valuable to let go.
How municipalities acquire so much debt on buildings that have been torn down or are underused illustrates the excesses of publicly financed stadiums and the almost mystical sway professional sports teams have over politicians, voters and fans.
Founded in 1969 to honor the year's best novel published in Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth, the Booker Prize has acquired so much prestige that its conferral is an event of national importance.
One pays you, one doesn't," says John (Sonny) Vaccaro, the 69-year-old godfather of summer basketball and the man who, in the employ of first Nike, then Adidas, then Reebok, rained shoe money on the basketball world and in so doing acquired so much clout that he is set to be portrayed by James Gandolfini — the guy who played Tony Soprano — in an HBO movie.
Some of the material acquires so much momentum, however, that it is thrown out in jets emanating from the poles.
It is still not clear how the Puerto Rican government acquired so much debt, or how the money was spent.
The fact that police departments have acquired so much military-grade weaponry and equipment only makes their high-aggression responses that much more deadly.
They have acquired so much ill-gotten wealth - and display it with so much ostentation and vulgarity - that various European media outlets have called the Chavez's "Venezuela's Royal Family".
