The increase was planned to support sales growth, store openings, product introductions and expanded assortments, and higher product and raw material acquisition costs.

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Senator Kennedy also revisited the infamous (and somewhat irrelevant) question of whether Saddam Hussein was pursuing the acquisition of nuclear material from Africa.

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Uranium 235 is the key material in starting a nuclear reaction, and its acquisition is the main problem facing states which want to go nuclear.

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The acquisition of property is the only real means to escape material deprivation without suffering the moral depravation of dependency.

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