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acquired city excellent land supply until water
When this land was acquired by the city over 100 years ago, it was acquired as a water source, ... It was an excellent water supply until they told us our water wasn't safe.
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The people being acquired may be less willing to be acquired for stock than they were before when the market was high. The depressed stock prices cuts both ways. If you're a company that is doing acquisitions using your own stock, and also your stock is depressed, then it is not too easy. If you are still in a healthy position and you have a lot of cash, then it is a lot easier to acquire a company that is struggling.
acquired endlessly exist generally good microsoft
What Microsoft is really good at is endlessly iterating and revving - incrementally improving things that already exist - and those things that already exist are generally acquired from the outside. Alan Cooper
acquired left
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a rotary phone. An article is usually Siamese-twinned to its date of birth. Cynthia Ozick
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Tommy's brand is still vibrant to a certain extent with consumers, but it has been failing for some time, not only with the brand itself and what it stands for with the consumer in terms of leading-edge styling and fashion, but also failing financially. The brand is very weak now, but if it's acquired by the right entity I believe the brand can be turned around and can gain its strength back.
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I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa, so I have never really acquired a taste for watching television. Alice Krige
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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. Orville Wright
acquired amateur commercial english-scientist enthusiasm felt labouring opportunity period slip steady technical
At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession. Henry Bessemer
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I turned to the novel, an artistic form which had in former days been neglected and had thus acquired a bad reputation, but which during the nineteenth century had developed and elevated itself to the ranks occupied by drama and the ancient epic.
acquired emotion english-novelist measure poetry
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. Thomas Hardy
acquired american-author check few major
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. Gelett Burgess
acquired arbitrary domain national power valor
It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it. William H. Seward
acquired alone appearance bread good great man name pay preferred truly
Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months. Ezra Taft Benson
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We began systems integration in the fourth quarter and expect to complete integration of Harrah's customer-relationship capabilities -- our Total Rewards player-loyalty program and revenue- and yield-management systems -- into the Caesars properties in April 2006. Based upon our experience with other acquired properties, we anticipate these capabilities will enable the Caesars facilities to benefit from increased market share and visitation.
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People sometimes forget how early Flickr came. Facebook didn't add photo sharing till a year after Flickr was acquired by Yahoo. Stewart Butterfield
acquired along experience meets somewhere sooner wisdom
For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Perhaps the skills we've acquired over the last five -- now six -- storms will help us. Jeb Bush
acquired respect thus
Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well. Janos Kadar
acquired amount certain commonly early everybody father flaws gradually habits iron love monitor ought parent particular personal question safe secured taught whatever
One of these flaws was, that having been long taught by his father to over-reach everybody he had imperceptibly acquired a love of over-reaching that venerable monitor himself. The other, that from his early habits of considering everything as a question of property, he had gradually come to look, with impatience, on his parent as a certain amount of personal estate, which had no right whatever to be going at large, but ought to be secured in that particular description of iron safe which is commonly called a coffin, and banked in the grave. Charles Dickens
acquired arm behind clearing difficult existence flourish mr peculiar settled sweeping whatever
Mr Podsnap settled that whatever he put behind him he put out of existence . . . Mr Podsnap had even acquired a peculiar flourish of his right arm in often clearing the world of its most difficult problems, by sweeping them behind him.
acquired enthusiasm fall great job literature love pass reading stay
Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it. Michael Morpurgo
acquired ballads dislike maybe
Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had back in the Seventies. But I've come around. Ballads have become something of an acquired taste. Joe Perry
acquired child equal father fathers follow footsteps great none proud
None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world -- so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal. Queen Victoria
acquired benefit bothering expertise improve nuclear
We are not bothering anyone, but we have acquired nuclear expertise and we want to benefit from it to improve our life.
acquired british countries cultural drafted imply items laws legal museum political protect questions recognized
There are political and legal questions about ownership. The British Museum acquired many of its items before other countries had drafted laws to protect their cultural relics. If we exhibited these items it would imply that we recognized their ownership.
acquired apparent exploit hiring information key likely secrets trade
Certainly, it was apparent to me that RLX was likely to exploit the confidential and proprietary information and trade secrets of Compaq that RLX acquired by its hiring of key Compaq personnel. Brad Anderson
acquired both care education english father indebted parent valuable
My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may have acquired in my youth. He was my only intelligent companion, and was both a watchful parent and an affectionate friend. John Marshall
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No prime agricultural land will be provided for setting up industries. As the demand (of Salim Group) is 5,000 acres some small plots of agricultural land could come in that. The farmers, whose land is acquired would be properly compensated. Sitaram Yechury
acquired people quite
For sure, I'm an acquired taste. People who've had that acquisition, who've acquired it, are quite surprised when they see me.
acquired earth heaven spirit unity valley
From of old the things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence.
acquired writers
I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes. Jim Crace
acquired finding great information looking
I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. Franklin P. Adams