"I'll get to talk her ear off about how wonderful David is, " Ackerman said.
"I would say most large companies, most Fortune 500 companies are insured, " Ackerman said.
Ackerman said kidnappings are becoming more common in Mexico, Central America, Brazil, Chechnya, the Philippines and, recently, in Haiti.
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Ackerman said kidnappers often set up road blocks and question motorists to decide if they are worth kidnapping and how much ransom to demand.
"He needed the time in the day in order to create, " said Ackerman, who divorced when her son was a teenager.
"There's certainly a sense that (Wednesday's) gains might have been a bear trap, " said Alan Ackerman, market strategist at Fahnestock and Co.
"The last time I saw my grandfather before he died, he told me again about meeting my grandmother in Grand Central, " said Ruthie Ackerman, his granddaughter.
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"It's quite remarkable to me that people are assuming that somehow we're at a new stage in political or institutional or economic development in Mexico, " said John Ackerman, a law professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a visiting scholar at American University in Washington.
"There were a few tears and lots of hugs, and a lot of excitement, " said his mother, Barbara Ackerman.
"We talked to one organization that found that their intensive care monitoring system would shut down on January 1, 2000, " said year 2000 consultant Joel Ackerman.
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Mike Ackerman, founder of The Ackerman Group, a Miami, Florida-based firm that consults companies in kidnap and ransom cases, said about 50 non-Colombians are abducted each year.
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