In January, at the Sundance Film Festival, Naomi Watts was one of the army of young, ambitious producers pushing tapes of their films into the hands of acquisitions executives on the snowbound streets of Park City, Utah.
On the one hand, comparisons based on acquisition prices rather than costs could be misleading because, for example, a manufacturer who is currently charging a high price might be willing to reduce it substantially in the face of competition.
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He would not discuss whether the size of the HomeSide losses would delay those plans, but he acknowledged that there would be less money on hand for acquisitions or stock buybacks, a common step by large Australian banks.
On the one hand, the acquisition of Russneft is mired in political intrigue, with Gutseriyev claiming to have been forced to sell by charges of illegal activities such as tax evasion.
On the one hand, this suggests that the genetic influences on acquisition and extinction processes are overlapping.
Owned by Guy Hands's Terra Firma private equity group, EMI owes £3bn to Citigroup, the US investment bank that bankrolled the EMI acquisition by Hands on the eve of the credit crunch.
On the prowl for bolt-on acquisitions.
On the one hand, motor skill acquisition may lead to increased neural recruitment for trained behaviors, thereby increasing average activation (Grafton et al., 1995; Karni et al., 1995; Hazeltine et al., 1997; Floyer-Lea and Matthews, 2005; Lehericy et al., 2005; Penhune and Doyon, 2002; Penhune and Doyon, 2005).
Thus, on the one hand we have a view of cultures as distributors of ideas circulating along social networks (and studied through cultural epidemiology); on the other hand, the acquisition of these ideas relies on people's cognitive processes and is constrained by them.
