Observation: Thanks to technological advances, avid readers seem to be replacing DTBAD (Dead Tree Book Acquisition Disorder) with an alphabet soup of more more modern-day hoarding behaviors: EBAD (E-Book Acquistion Disorder), EGAD (Electronic Gadget ...
Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place.
Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.
Polish has developed unimpeded; someone put their foot out and tripped English. The human grammar is a fecund weed, like grass. Languages like English, Persian, and Mandarin Chinese are mowed lawns, indicative of an interruption in natural proliferat...
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enor...
But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.
How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions.
I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.
My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.
