When the present isn't very promising, and the future seems tapered and uncertain, the past acquires an enviable luster.
The conversations that have been picked out from the past acquire a special energy because they are edged by silence or forgetting.
"We know based on scientific investigations in the past that acquiring these kinds of infectious diseases in a dental practice is very rare".
Not surprisingly, Mr. Wasserstein had talked with Lazard in the past about acquiring the firm, but those talks faltered over price, said that person.
In 2000, Nicholson Baker wrote in this magazine about his attempt to save America's past by acquiring bound volumes of newspapers that no longer exist, like the New York Herald Tribune or Joseph Pulitzer's World.
Several countries, including Iraq and Iran, have exploited this loophole in the past to acquire the means to develop nuclear weapons.
Yahoo's own public performance has long been tied to the value of Alibaba, after the American firm spent $1 billion years past to acquire a large fraction of the Asian technology giant.
The authors show abundant evidence of a circovirus-like or nanovirus-like virus with single-strand DNA genome that, in the past, have acquired a capsid protein from an RNA virus.
The consensus is that there are two major sources: innate, hard-wired biases that developed in our evolutionary past, and acquired biases established in the course of development and within our working environments.
