"We have no budget for acquisitions," Mr. Cimino, 58, says with a chuckle.
"I know the price of lettuce," she told me of her efforts to stick within a budget for acquisitions.
Bertelsmann, he said, intends to increase sharply its budget for acquisitions -- in part by spinning off more of its Internet properties, giving the company some of the cyberstock that is today's media-deal currency.
In the late eighties, the Getty's budget for acquisitions dwarfed other institutions' — in 1989, it was more than a hundred million dollars, compared with the Met's mere seventeen million.
"We're a small museum, and we have no budget for acquisitions.
These relatively small museums have little to no budgets for acquisitions, their collections are donated by collectors or the artists, and they are rarely crowded.
An auditor warned last month that without "significant decreases" in the district's budget, the acquisition would lead to deficits of $89 million in 2011 and $110 million in 2012.
These are relative small museums with little to no budgets for acquisitions, and their entire collections are donated by sports art collectors or the artists themselves, and it is rare that they are ever crowded.
California's measure, which passed the Senate this month and is before the Assembly, would allow the drug makers to limit R&D disclosures to publicly available information, but also would require disclosure of the planned marketing budget and acquisition cost for a new drug.
In the case of small and medium-size companies, which have limited budgets for acquisition of expensive equipment, it is a way of getting access to it.
