Nevertheless, after several difficult lending operations, Creditanstalt became an acqusition candidate.

In addition to land acqusition and landfill or recycling programs, money from the bond would have been used to preserve historic buildings.

The company said that the stock strategy would make the acqusition price lower because it would reduce investment banking fees.

Microsoft has announced its acqusition of AdECN, an advertising-exchange company.

As CSX's chief financial officer, he has assumed prime responsibility for the Conrail acqusition.

Such a strategy is being considered in the possible acqusition of the Tonka Corporation by Hasbro Inc.

For Mr. Eisner, the deal wipes out repeated criticism that he has been reluctant to use his cash-rich balance sheet for an acqusition.

In India, Mittal's acqusition of Arcelor was heralded as an indication that India had arrived on the global business stage.

They frightened native populations, they left unsystematized the acqusition of Jewish property, and they left untouched the Jews of Western Europe.

But just the rapid acqusition of two galleons, good captains, and very reliable crews-" "Plus," said Locke, "something to stick in the hold for the trip north.

Then there is the magazine, Bloomberg Business Week, an unpredecented media acqusition for the company which bought the ailing title from McGraw-Hill at the end of 2009.

The federal government has lost its last seven cases, including an F.T.C. case challenging Tenet Healthcare's acqusition of a hospital in Poplar Bluff, Mo.

The Literary Guild and Doubleday clubs, the main profit centers at the time of the Doubleday acqusition, have performed dismally, several current and former senior officers said.

During his tenure, Mr. Lindahl shed the company's power generation, nuclear and rail divisions and moved it toward technology-driven businesses, particularly with the 1998, $2.1 billion acqusition of Elsag Bayley Process Automation of Italy.

The two key findings of our study, therefore, were firstly that H pylori infection was more commong than expected in our population in 1969 and secondly that acqusition of infection over the subsequent 21 years was a rare occurrence.

The Archstone acqusition would add to Tishman Speyer's international inventory of commercial properties, which includes Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building in Manhattan, the CityPoint building in London and the Lumiére office tower in Paris.

Readers are left with an overwhelming sense that the $25 billion acqusition of RJR Nabisco occurred not because it was worth that much, or because it made economic sense, but because it was the inevitable climax of a battle royal of egos.

"We're planning to establish a major children's publishing company that will feature not only Disney-based characters, and once the acqusition is completed, the Muppet characters, but also the best children's characters in the world," Charles Wickham, head of Disney Publishing, said in an interview.

Merger of Weapons Giants Faces Unexpected Hurdle Lockheed Martin's $8.3 billion acqusition of Northrop Grumman is running into unexpected resistance from the Government, suggesting that Washington may now believe that the consolidation among military suppliers, which it had been encouraging, has gone too far.

Finally, some of the credit for this championship goes to Jerry West, the Lakers' general manager whose acqusition in February of Mychal Thompson, a 6-10 center, from San Antonio in exchange for two obscure players and two future draft choices, was hailed as the final cog in the Lakers' championship drive.

Much of the loss will be from legal costs from an antitrust lawsuit filed against the company by the Justice Department over United Tote's acqusition of Autotote Systems Inc. in December 1989; increased interest payments; depreciation and amoritization expenses from the acquisition, and delays in international sales, the company said.