Under the purchase method, which is more commonly used in Europe, one company must be designated the acquirer.

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The asset price method treats the purchase of an asset, such as a house, as it does the purchase of any consumer good.

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It has to provide a greater than before consumer surplus to get the consumer to purchase the new products (or those things made by the new method of production).

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Since the method used to obtain or purchase bitcoin may have revealed certain financial or personal links, it becomes necessary to render the blockchain useless for traffic analysis.

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This little-used method is usually applied to the purchase of a new vacation home.

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Then in 2005 a Greenpeace report accused the company of encouraging bottom trawling, a powerful fishing method that damages ocean ecosystems, with its purchase agreements.

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