Russian mafia leaders also took advantage of post-Soviet privatization to buy up state property.
First, he took advantage of post-crisis pain at giant financial firms to lure away bankers and traders.
To state, as Ellis does, that "Islamic militants" took advantage of post-Krakatoan spiritual panic is to repeat the prejudices of the colonial era: the natives are superstitious, and the Muslims are armed and dangerous outsiders.
Rather than taking advantage of post-production techniques, they actually re-engineered a piano so each key produced the same note and obliged professional pianist Ji Yong Kim to see what kind of music he could make with it.
The fall in spending, which was higher than the 0.6% drop predicted by economists, came after shoppers brought forward purchases to take advantage of post-Christmas sales and to beat the rise in VAT to 20%.
The storm was just in time to disrupt the plans of thousands of people trying to get home after the holiday, return unwanted gifts or take advantage of post-holiday sales.
Its timing was diabolical — too late for a white Christmas, but just in time to disrupt the travel plans of thousands trying to get home after the holiday, to return unwanted gifts or to take advantage of post-holiday bargains at stores.
In fact, the first such purchase was back in 1802 when a Dutchman took advantage of post-revolutionary turmoil to buy Château Lafite, one of the four estates named as "Premiers Crus" in the classification of the Médoc made in 1855.
In other news, retailers' sales got a boost during January as consumers took advantage of post-holiday sales.
These students can also take advantage of post-MD clinical training programs that offer time and opportunity for research.
In this system, precast concrete slabs that are associated with reduced CO2 emissions during their manufacture are attached compositely to a steel beam using a novel method of shear connection that takes advantage of post-installed friction-grip bolted shear connectors and the composite steel beams are connected to concrete-filled steel tubular columns using flush end plates with blind bolts.
