* See Leveraged buyout, or highly leveraged transaction, or " bootstrap " transaction, when an investor acquires a controlling interest in a company's equity and where a significant percentage of the purchase price is financed through leverage ( borrowing ).

From another perspective, the farmer and the miller both reduce a risk and acquire a risk when they sign the futures contract: the farmer reduces the risk that the price of wheat will fall below the price specified in the contract and acquires the risk that the price of wheat will rise above the price specified in the contract ( thereby losing additional income that he could have earned ).

According to Margaret Bent, " Renaissance notation is under-prescriptive by our standards ; when translated into modern form it acquires a prescriptive weight that overspecifies and distorts its original openness.

In medicine, this contributes to the spread of antibiotic resistance, as when one bacteria acquires resistance genes it can rapidly transfer them to other species.

* Vertical integration: Vertical integration occurs when an upstream and downstream firm merge ( or one acquires the other ).

According to Margaret Bent ( 1998 ), " Renaissance notation is under-prescriptive by our standards ; when translated into modern form it acquires a prescriptive weight that overspecifies and distorts its original openness.

The part lexicon-type layout ( with a marginal " dictionary " composed by Jennifer Sigler, who also edited the book ) spawned a number of concepts that have become common in later architectural theory, in particular " Bigness ": ' old ' architectural principles ( composition, scale, proportion, detail ) no longer apply when a building acquires Bigness.

expects to realize when it merges with or acquires another corporation.

This is when a firm having number of cash extensive projects acquires the firm which is cash-rich, thus enabling the new combined firm to enjoy the profits from investing the cash of one firm in the projects of other.

The term LBO is usually employed when a financial sponsor acquires a company.

At the request of his editor, Collodi added chapters 16 – 36, in which the Fairy with Turquoise Hair ( or " Blue Fairy ", as the Disney version names her ) rescues Pinocchio and eventually transforms him into a real boy, when he acquires a deeper understanding of himself, making the story suitable for children.

He attempts to acquire a legendary crystal that would allow him to wield even greater power, but, although Moriarty acquires the crystal, boosting his powers and healing his injuries, he is defeated when it is revealed that Holmes is partly possessed by the spirit of the Dark One's old rival, allowing Holmes to wield similar powers to Moriarty's and delay him long enough for Holmes's ally, Huree Chunder Mockerjee, to knock the crystal away from Moriarty and into Holmes's hands, allowing Holmes to turn Moriarty's powers against him, vaporising his body and destroying him once and for all.

Ironically then, the protagonist is most active when inert, and his life acquires meaning at its end.

" The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance.

Pure copper is orange-red and acquires a reddish tarnish when exposed to air.

It has nothing like the meaning of the adjective OK, which in the earliest recorded examples means'all right, good ,' though it later acquires other meanings, but even when used as an interjection does not express surprise, expostulation, or anything similar.

This process is thought to be a significant cause of increased drug resistance when one bacterial cell acquires resistance and quickly transfers the resistance genes to many species.

In medicine, this contributes to the spread of antibiotic resistance, as when one bacteria acquires resistance genes it can rapidly transfer them to other species.

It is generally playful among adults, although among children it can be hurtful, such as when one child acquires a possession of another's property and will not return it.

Competitive advantage occurs when an organization acquires or develops an attribute or combination of attributes that allows it to outperform its competitors.

SU ( 5 ) breaking occurs when a scalar field, analogous to the Higgs field, and transforming in the adjoint of SU ( 5 ) acquires a vacuum expectation value proportional to the weak hypercharge generator

For example, the distribution right could be infringed when a retailer acquires and sells to public unlawfully made audio or video tapes.

Darkseid acquires the powers of the Anti-Life Equation and capitalizes on the deaths of the New Gods by using the human Jimmy Olsen as a " soul-catcher " for the Gods, from which he can claim all their powers and recreate the universe in his own image, but he is killed when the Source is able to send Darkseid's resurrected son, Orion, to rip out his heart.

However, in Ozma of Oz, the chicken Billina acquires the ability to speak merely by being swept to the lands near Oz, and in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, the kitten Eureka and the cab horse Jim also gained the ability when reaching the land of Mangaboos, a similarly magical land.

Let a beggar, pressed by hunger, steal from a rich man's house a loaf, which perhaps saves him from starving, can it be possible to compare the good which the thief acquires for himself, with the evil which the rich man suffers?

* Cultivation of the soil " has within it a positive spiritual good " and from it the cultivator acquires the virtues of " honor, manliness, self-reliance, courage, moral integrity, and hospitality.

The most promising approaches treat the brain as a biological computer, very different in mechanism from electronic computers, but similar in the sense that it acquires information from the surrounding world, stores it, and processes it in a variety of ways.

A final type of collector is the inheritor, an accidental collector who acquires coins ( a collection, hoard or investment ) from another person as part of an inheritance.

In the field of parapsychology, claircognizance from late 17th century French clair ( clear ) and cognizance (< Middle English | ME cognisaunce < Old French | OFr conoissance, knowledge ) is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a person acquires psychic knowledge primarily by means of intrinsic knowledge.

When a user acquires a lossily compressed file, ( for example, to reduce download time ) the retrieved file can be quite different from the original at the bit level while being indistinguishable to the human ear or eye for most practical purposes.

Ford acquires the Rover trademark from BMW, who previously licensed its use to MG Rover Group

* 1935 – Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie.

St. Kitts & Nevis also acquires foreign direct investment from their unique citizenship by investment program, outlined in their Citizenship Act of 1984.

Art is born from the inner necessity of the artist in an enigmatic, mystical way through which it acquires an autonomous life ; it becomes an independent subject, animated by a spiritual breath.

* Byzantine Empire acquires silk technology from China.

* April 11 – Celje acquires market-town status and town rights by orders from Count Frederic II of Celje.

* James III of Scotland acquires the Orkney and Shetland Islands from Denmark.

* Francis Light acquires the island of Penang from the Sultan of Kedah on behalf of the British East India Company.

In addition to contributions from its member nations, the IBRD acquires most of its capital by borrowing on international capital markets through bond issues.

Whereas the IBRD acquires most of its funds by raising capital on international financial markets, the IDA heavily depends on contributions from its member states.

The Gouy phase indicates that as a Gaussian beam passes through a focus, it acquires an additional phase shift of π, in addition to the usual phase shift that would be expected from a plane wave.

He acquires from the troops the title of Gothicus.

Grilled meat acquires a distinctive roast aroma from a chemical process called the Maillard reaction.

Some of the adaptive solutions are to compensate for the disadvantages of being 70, 000 light years from port, such as the airponics bay and the transformation of the Captain's dining room to a kitchen, and later acquires enhancements from aliens in the Void that massively increases replicator efficiency.

* The Spartan ruler, Nabis, acquires the important city of Argos from Philip V of Macedon, as the price of his alliance with the Macedonians.