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He had emigrated to the United States from Poland some 20 years before, and though his translated work was already acquiring a following, he was a long way from becoming the puckish purveyor of Old World culture who charmed the American public and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1978.
The company specialized in the highly secretive business of acquiring foreign weapons and radars for U.S. intelligence agencies, and the authorities are looking into irregularities surrounding some of its deals.
Those interested in acquiring some (sanitized) sense of how great is the task--even in the absence of any other social problems--that faces a teacher wishing to impart mainstream speaking and writing skills to black students who don't have them might consult the soon-to-be-published English: An African-American Handbook--A Guide to the Mastery of Speaking More and Better English , by Savannah Miller Young, a black elementary-school principal in St. Louis.
(GSA/IRMS, A Guide for Acquiring Commercial Software, Jan.
In a proxy fight , the acquiring company asks shareholders for their "proxies"--that is, the right to vote in their stead in management elections.