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The French grenadiers were turned back, and the Piedmontese had acquired their name.

That business was acquired by Cain Chemical, a company owned by Gordon Cain.

In 1962, Albemarle Paper Co., also managed by the Gottwald family, made national news when it acquired the much larger chemical maker Ethyl through a leveraged buyout.

Albemarle has been expanding its flame-retardants portfolio and recently acquired that unit of the French company Rhodia.

A snide sociopath and heartless connoisseur, this Tom Ripley is a direct descendant of such Malkovich dandies as Gilbert Osmond (from "The Portrait of a Lady") and the Vicomte de Valmont (from "Dangerous Liaisons"). Mr. Malkovich's acquired Euro mannerisms and cold, aloof intellectuality dovetail neatly with Highsmith's fabulously perverse creation.

(Later he acquired the Fay Vineyard, too). Prune trees were soon replaced with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.

In the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, Adlai Stevenson unveiled spy-plane photographs at the United Nations, just as Secretary of State Colin Powell offered evidence last year to support his contention that Iraq had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and was trying to acquire nuclear weapons.

It is true that she had a passion for children - she adored corralling great gangs of them into theatres to watch her plays - and that, in her middle age, she acquired the appreciation of gardens that would feed itself into her most famous book.

She acquired houses in London, Kent, Washington DC, New York, Long Island and Bermuda.

They have acquired their "Sharks" nickname; a rep utation for playing open rugby with great style, underpinned by the presence of England star and spring-heeled back Jason Robinson; a new ground - they share Edgeley Park with Stockport County; and a new proprietor, Brian Kennedy.

If any stockholder acquires 10 percent of the company's stock and proposes a merger or acquisition without board approval, Brogan said the poison pill requires a two-thirds majority approval for the takeover but doesn't allow the stockholder with 10 percent of the vote and his allies to vote.

The other is the fact that there probably are enough bad guys here legally to cause trouble, particularly if we leave Islamic terrorists abroad free to hatch plots, raise funds, and acquire weapons.

Most Indians fans have never heard of Scott Stewart, but they probably hadn't heard of Ricardo Rincon before the Tribe acquired him from the Pirates in the winter of 1998. General manager Mark Shapiro is hoping Stewart is a worthy successor to Rincon after obtaining him from the Montreal Expos for minor-leaguers Maicer Izturis and Ryan Church on Monday.

Her illness broke something in him, and, following a pattern that we can observe in many writers who go from good to great, he threw away the sophistication he had so strenuously acquired in his twenties and returned to the past.

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