Leighton has been run at arm's length and Hochtief argues that ACS's bid is really aimed at acquiring Leighton as the jewel in its crown.

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New York City is the world's biggest market for window ACs, and its consumers are the most aesthetically demanding.

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Hubble's historic view is actually a combination of two separate images taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and its Near Infrared Camera and Multi-object Spectrometer (Nicmos).

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"We are excited by this new invention on transparent solar cells, which applied our recent advances in transparent conducting windows (also published in ACS Nano) to fabricate these devices, " said Paul S.Weiss, CNSI director and Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences.

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"Our strategy is to take one of the centipede's legs, " says Lynn Blodgett, 45, head of ACS' business-process outsourcing unit.

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It appears that ACS Education Solutions, the private company that collects payments for the Department of Education's Direct Loan program, based Zumas' repayments on her gross income, rather than her adjusted gross income, as Congress intended.

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