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Now, with the onset of outsourcing, globalization, and the virtual corporation, those old factories have acquired a patina of humanist authenticity they could not have had in their own time.
In his first two years, he did do an excellent impersonation of a turnaround specialist, ridding Kodak of the nonfilm businesses--Eastman Chemical and Sterling Winthrop Drug--that it had acquired during the days when conglomeration was all the rage.
Federal facilities comprise a portfolio of significant, durable assets that have been acquired to support specific functions and missions and the Practices in Federal general conduct of the government's business.
"Acquired for or in connection with" is defined as including land acquired with the intent to construct general PP&E and land acquired in combination with general PP&E, including not only land used as the foundation, but also adjacent land considered to be the general PP&E's common grounds.
Indeed, base composition would hardly allow identification of a gene acquired from Salmonella in the E. coli genome, despite the fact that these bacteria may have diverged 100 million years ago.