Important also is to know how to acquire this information and with whom it should be shared.
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In 1994, two economists, Avinash K. Dixit of Princeton and Robert Pindyck of MIT wrote an influential book called Investment Under Uncertainty that showed that, since so many investment decisions are irreversible, people wait to acquire more information before they jump in.
But governments have a duty to acquire as much information as they can consistent with that proportionality.
Cloud-based communication, customer development, community building and financial applications help small businesses acquire and manage information quickly and strategically.
India's Piramal Healthcare plans to acquire health-information manager Decision Resources of the U.S., and Piramal's chairman assailed the "antibusiness feeling" in India.
The need to acquire as much information as possible before acting in a crisis situation also explains why the United States is currently orbiting a new generation of space-based infrared satellites that can detect missile launches and nuclear detonations within seconds after they occur.
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Media and information literacy, through which individuals acquire a combination of technical and cognitive skills to seek, evaluate and use information effectively, develop critical thinking and acquire the behaviours for life-long learning, is becoming the engine of education in the 21st century.
Many biotechnology companies have already paid plenty to acquire Celera's information.
Plastic Logic's mission is to lead a revolution in the way people acquire, organize and consume information.
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As they repeat it, the amount of information they can acquire naturally increases.
Astronomers would like to pin down the masses of the planets (information difficult to acquire with Kepler), as well as getting that data on atmospheric composition.
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For instance, regulators recently gave the company a green light (with conditions attached) to acquire ITA Software, which provides online flight information.
Authorities said Teeple also provided information about Brocade's plans to acquire Foundry to two acquaintances, including John Johnson, 46, of Arvada, Colo.
Securities laws require publicly held companies to disclose material information that could affect investors' decision to acquire or sell shares.
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In well-developed markets, where scores of stock analysts cover every company, useful information that nobody else has access to becomes increasingly expensive to acquire, and the potential gains from unearthing it are increasingly thin.
The Pentagon does not release this information, and congressional leaders have been stonewalled in their efforts to acquire it.
Users who attempted to acquire an app were met with a pop-up screen listing the types of information the app was seeking.
That's because forming a joint venture with a company before trying to buy it gives a company inside information about the target's worth and the value of the research it is seeking to acquire.
Before then, Marathon Oil ( MRO) had a 50% stake in Pilot, which made the company ineligible. (For more information about eligibility, click here.) In the summer of 2009, Pilot agreed to acquire Flying J travel plazas.
The appreciation for information and its potential advantages in future warfare led Chinese analysts to speculate and theorize on how they might acquire their own set of doctrine and capabilities.
The IT commission was assembled to present Gilmore with "Investing in the Future: Toward a 21st Century Information Technology Workforce, " a report that examines the ability of the state's IT industry to acquire and develop trained workers.
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