Mr. Dimon said that regulations had made it harder to imagine acquiring new businesses.
DIMON'S LAMENT Jamie Dimon, below, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, said Tuesday that new, tighter financial regulations had made it harder for the bank to imagine acquiring new businesses.
Imagine acquiring a license to operate, investing billions of dollars in operations and then having the license revoked, or having the fees you can charge your customers changed, or the commissions you can pay your distributors decimated.
A: Serious training in music taught me skills that I can't imagine acquiring elsewhere.
It was impossible to imagine acquiring Deneuve's carefully constructed beauty even though you might tint your hair gold or buy a well-seamed dress: in the end, it was no more obtainable than Moreau's pouting lips or Bardot's belle poitrine.
Gone for good, it seems, are the days when urban youth could simply be left in peace to grow up, start going to the symphony or the theater and (imagine!) acquire the edifying habit of spending a few minutes with the newspaper over coffee every morning.
Through sheer lack of humility and competence, he has squandered the good will of vast numbers of Iraqis and Americans and American allies, and it is difficult to imagine him acquiring the skill and wisdom to regain it.
A full acquisition may have been unlikely because of short-term capital gains tax implications, but it isn't difficult to imagine Intel acquiring VMWare as a short but big step into the new growing market.
The Dodgers say they want to rebuild their minor league system rather than deplete it, but they also want to add a starting pitcher, and it would be difficult to imagine them acquiring an elite one — David Price or Cole Hamels – without surrendering Urias or Seager.
I can imagine airlines busily acquiring stocks of bicycle helmets and slapping a $20 fee on each one.
But now even the industrial dimension of nuclear weapons is widely distributed, so you have these massive kinds of threats coming from countries that no one would have imagined could have acquired this capability 25 years ago.
