In the aftermath of the financial and economic crisis that began in mid-1997, the government took custody of a significant portion of private sector assets through acquisition of nonperforming bank loans and corporate assets through the debt restructuring process.

* USACE took over all real estate acquisition, construction, and maintenance for Army facilities, 1941

Today's St. Marks evidently has its roots in American commercial activity that took hold beneath the walls of the fort upon acquisition of Spanish Florida by the U. S. in 1821 — before the settlement moved slightly up St. Marks River to the present position.

A laboratory was built on the pier in 1948 and major expansion of physical facilities took place in the 1970s with the acquisition of of land, additional laboratories, dormitory, apartments, maintenance complex and a 5¼ acre boat basin.

The acquisition of Grolier by Scholastic for US $ 400 million, took place in 2000.

The Bard acquisition took about one month from start to finish.

As part of its acquisition of AMC in 1987, Chrysler Corporation took ownership of the Holmes facility and its manufacturing business, but closed the operation on September 16, 1988.

" The deal represents Canadian Tire's first major acquisition since it took over Mark's Work Warehouse a decade ago.

The territory and its main town of Sidi Ifni were ceded to Spain by Morocco on April 26, 1860, but there was little interest in this colonial acquisition until 1934 when the governor-general of Spanish Sahara took up residence.

A major improvement took place from 1930 with the acquisition of land between Northampton Road and Farndon Road.

As part of the acquisition, Trek took over ownership of the Villiger-Diamant production facility in Hartmannsdorf, Germany.

However, the most important event in the history of Sevilla FC that took place during the Civil War was the acquisition in 1938 of the land where the stadium of Nervión stood, which until then was simply rented.

Further expansion took place with the 1996 acquisition of Clerical Medical Fund Managers, a UK life insurance company.

proposed acquisition never took place.

With the acquisition of the Hulton library, Getty Images took ownership of the rights to some 15 million photographs from the British press archives dating back to the Nineteenth Century.

The second major international acquisition took place in 1993 when Zumtobel bought 51 % stake in the Staff Group of Lemgo, Germany ( the remaining shares were acquired in 1994 ).

In 1963 the Algerian government took possession of 51 % of the company assets, increasing its stake to 83 % in 1970 and to 100 % and nationalisation in 1974, after acquisition of the remaining 17 % stake held by Air France.

1959 saw BoB complete its first domestic acquisition when it took over Hind Bank.

It took its current name following the acquisition of the commune by Louis de Sévérac, Marquis of Arpajon ( father of Anne d ' Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles ).

Land acquisition and utility relocation took place in 2004.

In the 1980s, another round of expansion took place with the acquisition of the former Atlanta Municipal Auditorium in 1979, which was subsequently converted into Alumni Hall in 1982, and currently houses Georgia State's administrative offices.

Although the Hillman company was acquired by Humber in 1929, Hillman was used as the primary marque of the Rootes Group from 1931, following its acquisition of Humber, until 1967, when Chrysler in turn took over Rootes.

In 1920, the bank took over from the Department of the Treasury the responsibility for the issue of Australian bank notes, the beginning of its acquisition of central bank powers.

Brookfield Properties took ownership of the Newport Tower in June 2006 after the $ 4. 8 billion acquisition of Trizec Properties.

Section 381(a) applies only to a transfer by liquidation of a subsidiary owned to the extent of at least 80 per cent, a statutory merger or consolidation, an acquisition of substantially all a corporation's assets solely in exchange for voting stock, or a change of identity, form, or place of organization.

For a long time, Bismarck had refused to give in widespread public demands to give Germany " a place in the sun " through the acquisition of overseas colonies.

The risk element arises from the possibility that the merger or acquisition will not go ahead as planned ; hedge fund managers will use research and analysis to determine if the event will take place.

Myers and Davis ( 2007 ) describe the acquisition of fear as when a conditioned stimulus ( e. g., a distinctive place ) is paired with an aversive unconditioned stimulus ( e. g. a electric shock ) to an end result in which the subject exhibits a conditioned feared response to the distinctive place ( CS + UCS = CR ).

The Oratorians, by contrast, reserved it a lesser place, in part due to the stress they placed on modern language acquisition and a more sensualist philosophy ( like Bernard Lamy's La Rhétorique ou l ' Art de parler ( 1675 ) which is an excellent example of their approach ).

The acquisition of images ( producing the input image in the first place ) is referred to as imaging.

But thanks to the addition of young striker Kevin Davies, and the acquisition of a few others, Southampton achieved a respectable eleventh place finish in the table and managed a home win over Manchester United for the third consecutive season.

Article 8 of the Constitution, states that all Malaysian citizens shall be equal under the law, and " Except as expressly authorised by this Constitution, there shall be no discrimination against citizens on the ground only of religion, race, descent or place of birth in any law or in the appointment to any office or employment under a public authority or in the administration of any law relating to the acquisition, holding or disposition of property or the establishing or carrying on of any trade, business, profession, vocation or employment.

The result of this acquisition was the Tandberg Expressway Firewall Traversal technology, which allows any H. 323 video endpoint to place calls through any number of firewalls or NAT devices.

In the narrower sense of the term, a family history is a biography of a single family over several generations, based on a tested genealogy and fleshed out with the fuller story of the family's place in society, the dramas of its achievements or failures and its acquisition or loss of wealth and rank.

Some have suggested that the greatest benefit of the takeover of the American embassy was the acquisition of intelligence information contained within the embassy, including the identity of informants to the U. S. government, which the new Islamic republic could use to remove potential dissenters and consolidate its gains and stabilize its place.

So he was in an urgent need for a suitable mill stump to mount the cap on, as he had no place to put his new acquisition.

Clause 2 states: “ Except as expressly authorised by this Constitution, there shall be no discrimination against citizens on the ground only of religion, race, descent, gender or place of birth in any law or in the appointment to any office or employment under a public authority or in the administration of any law relating to the acquisition, holding or disposition of property or the establishing or carrying on of any trade, business, profession, vocation or employment .”

In 2004 BD completed the acquisition of Atto Bioscience Acquired, a company specializing in optical instrumentation, software, and reagents for real-time analysis of interactions taking place in living cells.

On January 17, 2008, NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire the AMEX for $ 260 million in stock ; on October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext completed the acquisition.

Namco Bandai has purchased a 34 % stake in Atari Europe on May 14, 2009, paving the way for its acquisition from Infogrames.

Borland had had an internal project to clone dBASE which was intended to run on Windows and was part of the strategy of the acquisition, but by late 1992 this was abandoned due to technical flaws and the company had to constitute a replacement team ( the ObjectVision team, redeployed ) headed by Bill Turpin to redo the job.

At the same time they announced the planned acquisition of Segue Software, a maker of software test and quality tools, in order to concentrate on Application Lifecycle Management ( ALM ).

With the acquisition of Montagu House the first exhibition galleries and reading room for scholars opened on 15 January 1759.

* Advise hospital administrators on the planning, acquisition, and use of medical equipment.

However, following NTL's acquisition of Virgin Mobile, the NTL and Telewest services were rebranded Virgin Media on February 8, 2007, creating a single cable operator covering more than 95 % of the UK cable market.

Capellas stepped down on November 12, 2002, just six months on the job, to become CEO of MCI Worldcom where he would lead its acquisition by Verizon.

Rather, the United Kingdom received a US $ 14 million discount from the US on the acquisition of submarine launched ballistic missile system Polaris missiles per a now-declassified addendum to the 1966 agreement.

It also requires to " facilitate " the acquisition of nationality by certain persons, including spouses of nationals, children of its nationals born abroad, children one of whose parents has acquired the nationality, children adopted by a national, persons lawfully and habitually resident for a period before the age of eighteen, and stateless persons and refugees lawfully and habitually resident on its territory.

* Gram, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hewlett Packard, based on their acquisition of Palm, Inc.

Such losses, if covered by conventional insurance, mean having to pay a premium that includes loadings for the company's general expenses, cost of putting the policy on the books, acquisition expenses, premium taxes, and contingencies.

It may include the acquisition of intellectual property, such as information on industrial manufacture, ideas, techniques and processes, recipes and formulas.

Just acquisition, especially by working on unowned things ; and

He oversaw the creation of extended hours and free admission on Friday nights and an increase in the acquisition budget to $ 36 million from $ 4. 5 million.

It focused on observable behaviours and defines learning as the acquisition of a new behaviour.

Instead, Chomsky argued for a mathematical approach to language acquisition, based on a study of syntax.

The leading idea is that human biology imposes narrow constraints on the child's " hypothesis space " during language acquisition.

In the Principles and Parameters Framework, which has dominated generative syntax since Chomsky's ( 1980 ) Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures, the acquisition of syntax resembles ordering from a menu: The human brain comes equipped with a limited set of choices, from which the child selects the correct options using her parents ' speech, in combination with the context.

Some language acquisition researchers, such as Elissa Newport, Richard Aslin, and Jenny Saffran, believe that language acquisition is based primarily on general learning mechanisms, namely statistical learning.

It has been determined, through empirical research on developmentally normal children, as well as through some extreme cases of language deprivation, that there is a " sensitive period " of language acquisition in which human infants have the ability to learn any language.

Researchers are unable to experimentally test the effects of the sensitive period of development on language acquisition, because it would be unethical to deprive children of language until this period is over.

Shortly thereafter, the attention of the government turned to the acquisition of Western Sahara from Spain, an issue on which all major domestic parties agreed.