"It can, of course, be stolen or acquired by more unscrupulous methods", he added.
Companies have added extra systems as they have sold new products, grown abroad or acquired competitors.
Over time approximately four-fifths of these outfits have been driven out of business or acquired.
They can be bought on open markets, or acquired from unsavory regimes in exchange for easy credit.
Women are highly criticized when they exhibit what is typically considered their innate female traits or acquired male behavior.
Syria could have bought these cluster munitions from Egypt, received them through military cooperation, or acquired them another way.
Muscle diseases weaken and waste muscles and can be inherited or acquired and affect people of all ages, backgrounds and nationalities.
If the company can achieve escape velocity with enough hype and buzz in the market, they can get public or acquired early.
Through his Kingdom Hotel Investments, the prince has constructed or acquired 5-star hotels in countries such as Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania.
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The debt must have been created or acquired in your business or closely related to your business when it became partly or totally worthless.
Any way you look at it, though -- independent or acquired -- it sounds like Rubinstein has every intention of making more waves in 2010.
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Some of the best-known syndicates at Lloyd's, including Hiscox, Amlin, Catlin and Wellington, have recently expanded, established or acquired operating units in America and Bermuda.
All three have built or acquired banks outside their home base.
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Over the last three years, we have built in U.S. shipyards or acquired new U.S. built and flagged vessels primarily designed to service the deep water drilling market.
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While its media properties are red-hot, this Manhattan company is still struggling to profit from a hodgepodge of 50 ventures it has created or acquired to reach this fickle market.
As a result of these content- and speaker-based rules, detailers cannot obtain prescriber-identifying information, even though the information may be purchased or acquired by other speakers with diverse purposes and viewpoints.
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What this ritual interchange reveals is a larger habit of thinking about the more enjoyable things in life: They're only on loan or acquired on credit, and sooner or later the date when they must be paid for will roll around.
Banks established or acquired brokerage firms, launched their own mutual funds, invested in and backed hedge funds, sliced and diced mortgages into derivatives and sold them as investments, while diving into proprietary trading for their own accounts in a big and reckless way.
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In the Anglo-Saxon world Lamarck's name, if it is known at all, is associated with a theory long since discredited - the idea known as the inheritance of acquired characteristics - the idea that traits or attributes acquired or learned in the space of your life time will somehow be inherited by your children at birth.
Among the scenarios that have filled the daydreams of Silicon Valley's Internet start-ups are two happy endings: being acquired by Microsoft or being acquired by Yahoo!
The disability could involve a physical or mental disorder or an acquired illness that impacts their ability to care for or support themselves.
Companies must have gone public or been acquired after June 1995 to be considered, and they must be engaged in information technology or life sciences.
The adjusted-basis typically is the original purchase price, or value when acquired via inheritance or gift, increased by capital improvements.
Any income earned or assets acquired that year are counted more heavily than in later years.
It can also help you identify trends around what companies are raising money or getting acquired.
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Four of his firms went public or were acquired in the past year, freeing him up for new deals.
The company recently joined or was acquired by FreeAgent, an online accounting solution.
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They also don't apply to mutual-fund transactions during 2011 or stock acquired in connection with a dividend reinvestment plan.
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Only tech and life sciences companies that have gone public or been acquired within the past five years are considered.
Venture firms, which are often heavily involved in running their anointed companies, get the big payoff when these tyros go public or get acquired.
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