A piece eagerly acquired in one century may leave a curator puzzled in the next.
The fashion for private and indeed state-sponsored museums has also been driving the top end of the market - Gulf states, particularly Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, have been eagerly acquiring works of art for ambitious museum programmes.
Foreign fashion houses would eagerly snap up promising designers, hoping to acquire some of the imaginative magic that has made British fashion a worldwide success.
The assumption is that once there is a richer and more intellectually stimulating offering to attract reluctant learners to put in the necessary effort to acquire and retain the knowledge they are offered, they will eagerly do so.
This is where the networks present their fall schedules, and buyers eagerly flock from all over the globe to see the shows (and, hopefully, acquire the right programmes for their channels).
In August, Palm spent $11 million in an unlikely acquisition of software company Be Incorporated, after backing out of a deal to acquire Idaho-based Extended Systems, which makes business software specifically aimed at the business users Palm has so eagerly coveted.
To acquire an insight into the adsorption process of the Cu2+ ions and its distribution between the adsorbent and the aqueous medium, thermodynamic factors of the whole process are eagerly sought for; the Gibbs free energy of adsorption (∆G0), the entropy of adsorption (∆S0), and the enthalpy of adsorption (∆H0) can be computed from the following equations (Eqs. 13 15).
If the ECB had intervened as eagerly as the BoE, it would have acquired sovereign debt worth the entire outstanding amount of Italian and Spanish public bonds.
But last week, he was back in full force at the festival, deftly acquiring several of the gathering's most eagerly sought movies while promoting Miramax's prospects in the current Oscar race.
Eagerly chasing offense as the clock ticked down on Friday's trade deadline, the New York Mets landed the big right-handed bat they were seeking, acquiring Yoenis Cespedes from Detroit for two minor league pitchers.
