A staggering 80% of poor black American males will manage only to acquire criminal convictions.
The fund, he said, should be used only to acquire key pieces of property that are in danger of development.
Michigan's attorney general, Bill Schuette, has issued a strong opinion that the art can be sold only to acquire more art, not to retire public debt.
He goes on not only to acquire a smart outfit of new clothes and win a devoted wife and family, but to become King of the Elephants and have many breathtaking adventures.
Over the past six years, airlines have laid off more than a hundred thousand workers, around a sixth of their workforce, and six major carriers have shrunk their fleets — planes are expensive not only to acquire but to maintain — by twenty per cent.
If you're one of the many New Yorkers who worry about throwing away plastic bags but seem only to acquire more and more, then help is on the way.
I had only to acquire and read (ninety-five cents for the small ones, a dollar twenty-five for the Giants) — my sense of possibility unfolding, with each book, like a carpenter's rule.
That is, even when you give the powerful brokerage firms what you think they want -- huge investment-banking fees paid not only to acquire companies but also to spin them off just months later -- they can still poke you in the eye with a stick.
For instance ENRC, a London-listed Kazakh mining firm, waived its rights to buy out a stake in a mining enterprise owned by Gécamines, Congo's state miner, only to acquire it for $75m from a company owned by Dan Gertler, an Israeli businessman, which had paid $15m for it just months earlier.
