China has long prioritized acquiring foreign technology, including through cybertheft and economic espionage.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY has long sought to acquire the land on which sits an unusual, and by some tastes uninviting, chapel made almost entirely of concrete.
Since retiring from Microsoft in 1983, Allen has long been founding, acquiring and assembling the pieces of his vision of a wired world a collection of content, delivery and product businesses.
BUILT in 1924, the Florentine-style Federal Reserve Bank at 33 Liberty Street had long ago acquired an ancient-looking patina of black crust on its noble stones.
It came ashore with immigrants from Hamburg, who had long since acquired the habit of eating ground beef, raw with onion juice, from nomadic Tatar tribes.
As a man of the world accustomed to being told the most intimate details about complete strangers' marriages, careers and hobbies, I had long ago acquired the requisite skills to mediate this crisis.
The company's boys have long since acquired the choreography's requisite loosened technique and tightened physique, but it was only last year that Robbins, after a fifteen-year wooing by City Ballet's chief ballet master, Peter Martins, decided to adapt his work for the State Theatre.
INSIDE PITCH General Manager Omar Minaya has long been interested in acquiring Manny Ramirez, nearly consummating a deal for him at the 2005 trade deadline.
Warner Music has long been interested in acquiring EMI, but the US major is on the hunt for new investors of its own, meaning that it is unable to move quickly.
Liberty Media Holding Chairman John Malone, the ex-head of Tele-Communications, has long been interested in acquiring a satellite TV carrier.
