To study whether current carriage affected pneumococcus acquisition, we estimated acquisition rates separately for noncarriers (e.g., rate α; see Figure 1) and carriers (rate θα α).
To understand the potential financial cost of acquiring lands within a proposed reserve network for the Sierra Nevada, CA, USA, we used an assessors GIS database to estimate the acquisition cost in one county within the network to be US$2.55 billion.
These are also the values we used in Eq. 3 to estimate prey acquisition rates for packs with only a single GPS-collared wolf.
Thus three other key deals in the past 20 months: $10 million for a minority interest in Chipotle Mexican Grill, a popular Denver, Colorado-based chain of 25 Mexican restaurants; an estimated $70 million purchase of Donatos Pizza, a 140-store chain based in Columbus, Ohio; and the estimated $15 million acquisition of Aroma, a stylish coffee-and-sandwich bar in London with 23 outlets.
Thus three other key deals in the past 20 months: $10 million for a minority interest in Chipotle Mexican Grill, a popular Denver-based chain of 25 Mexican restaurants; an estimated $70 million purchase of Donatos Pizza, a 140-store chain based in Columbus, Ohio; and the estimated $15 million acquisition of Aroma, a stylish coffee-and-sandwich bar in London with 23 outlets.
It comes less than three weeks after the completion of Interpublic's estimated $1.68 billion acquisition of True North Communications in Chicago.
Con Edison's estimated $7.5 billion acquisition, including debt assumption, would create the nation's biggest electricity distribution company, with more than 5 million electricity and 1.4 million gas customers.
Cardinal estimated the acquisition would add 2 to 3 cents to its earnings a share in 2013, and 18 cents a share by 2014.
Forbes estimates the acquisition to be in the neighborhood of $100 million.
