The potential for sequential tool use in New Caledonian crows is likely to relate to general problem-solving abilities, rather than to an evolutionary adaptation for acquiring out-of-reach tools (which seems an unlikely scenario in their native forested habitat, where sticks are readily available).
For the better part of three weeks, Cox and everyone else who passed through Orlando had been talking up the kid in right field: African-American, six feet five and two hundred and forty pounds, yet somehow still lanky, with room on his frame for filling out — for acquiring what Heyward's father, Eugene, calls his "man strength".
Iran's nukes are still seen as the overwhelming existential threat to Israel, but the difficulties that the Iranian nuclear programme is thought to be having, thanks to tighter sanctions and the disruptive effects of the Stuxnet computer virus, are widely believed to have pushed the timeline for acquiring a bomb out to at least a couple of years from now.
Mrs. Bodne had a gift for acquiring house seats for sold-out Broadway shows for desperate friends.
But the plans laid out no provisions for acquiring the properties on that land and no details about how much housing might be created.
As McClatchy lays out its plans for acquiring newspaper chain Knight Ridder, the fate of a one-third stake in CareerBuilder, an online classifieds business, remains unclear.
In defending the import initiative, aquarium officials point out that options for acquiring mammals from other marine parks in North America or abroad are limited because it can be hard to prove that the animals were humanely captured.
There's some decent value out there for acquiring IP, but patent reform [is having an impact on] non-practicing entities [also known as patent trolls], who are less active right now.
His suggestion was for Republicans to come out for a simpler, cheaper, and more fair process for acquiring citizenship.
Are attorneys needed for acquiring that visa?
Who is responsible for acquiring textbooks?
