The Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants each acquired two pitchers o Saturday.
Wiltshire, Mace-Hamilton, and Arrowsmith each acquired his own "protector" and in turn became protectors of their "bijous".
Japan's three "megabanks"—Mizuho, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and Sumitomo Mitsui had each acquired consumer-finance companies.
The Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific joined together in 1996, and last year the Norfolk Southern and the CSX each acquired a portion of the Conrail system.
Oppenheimer Capital and Alliance Capital Management each acquired more than 30 million shares of WorldCom in the fourth quarter, according to federal filings.
British terrestrial broadcasters ITV and Channel 4 each acquired a 20% stake in Freeview, a digital free-to-air TV service launched in 2002.
Starting pitchers Dana Eveland and Greg Smith, each acquired from the Diamondbacks for Haren, have steadied what was a questionable rotation last season, and Beane brought in Mike Sweeney, 34, the veteran Royals slugger, to provide offense and leadership.
The dueling online music services owned by separate coalitions of the five major record companies are set to announce that they have each acquired the rights to distribute the digital catalogs of all five.
Both new investors, who have each acquired a one-third stake, said Mr. Peretz, the editor in chief, and the editor, Peter Beinart, would remain in charge of the magazine's content.
This is because the ad giants tend to let each acquired agency keep its own identity, premises and client list, preserving the illusion of being small within the conglomerate structure.
For each acquired radar beam, velocity is estimated (in blue dots) based on correlation techniques.
