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But the benefits of the government purchase extended beyond its specific goal, when Boeing used the knowhow it
acquired
developing the B-52 to create its commercial B-707 aircraft.
Because the required skills
acquired
through formal education have become relatively scarcer, the education premium has risen, underpinning a more uneven distribution of income and wealth.
Second, targeted industrial policy would create the demand for those workers and their newly
acquired
skills.
Policymakers in the industrial core looked the other way as rapidly growing East Asian countries
acquired
Western technologies and industrial capabilities through unorthodox policies such as subsidies, local content requirements, reverse engineering, and currency undervaluation.
China’s newly
acquired
wealth enabled its leaders to build one of the world’s most technically sophisticated Internet firewalls and equip its internal security forces with the most effective tools.
That process allows
acquired
characteristics to become inherited.
Almost overnight, the humble bibliographic reference
acquired
symbolic significance, and science gained a scorecard.
It is possible that highly metastasized breast tumors might have
acquired
additional genetic changes causing resistance to treatment with PARP inhibitors.
However, unlike fully developed tumors, they are not likely to have
acquired
many genetic changes and are therefore unlikely to have gained resistance to PARP inhibitors.
The US television program 60 Minutes recently reported that several current members of Congress allegedly used confidential information that they
acquired
on the job for personal gain.
For example, it creates the possibility that, say, British MPs could legally trade shares on information
acquired
in the course of normal business, because they do not qualify as “insiders.”
The Mediterranean port of Piraeus, which a Chinese firm
acquired
for $436 million from cash-strapped Greece last year, will serve as the BRI’s “dragon head” in Europe.
If globalization has
acquired
a lousy reputation in the US, the external deficit deserves much of the blame.
Tribal voters in Chhattisgarh abandoned the BJP in droves as reports spread of their traditional lands being
acquired
for “development,” while Dalits in Rajasthan suffered numerous public indignities and revolted at the ballot box.
In addition to Kurdish – their mother tongue, rich with ancient culture – they speak the languages
acquired
in exile.
In the US, the only mainstream media organization that ran consistently skeptical articles about the case for war was the Knight Ridder group (which has since been
acquired
by McClatchy).
However, the skills that are now required outside academia are changing so rapidly that universities may struggle to marry the generic cognitive skills taught in the classroom – such as critical thinking, analytical reasoning, problem solving, and writing – with the professional expertise that is increasingly
acquired
in the workplace.
First, the fundamentalists benefited from years of political organizing and activism, and thus were better able to mobilize their supporters, whereas the liberals, who led the uprising against the former regime, lacked nationwide organization and had little time to translate their newly
acquired
political capital into votes.
Sharing prey with pre-existing carnivores, they
acquired
tapeworms that originally inhabited only hyenas, large cats, and African hunting dogs.
Recent history, particularly the excessive accumulation of private and public debt, suggests that we have not
acquired
it.
I thought again about how on his trip through Latin America, he
acquired
his revolutionary ideals, clarified certain questions, and added more.
Having earlier preached the gospel of its “peaceful rise,” China is now beginning to take the gloves off, convinced that it has
acquired
the necessary muscle.
Before Deng launched his “four modernizations,” China had
acquired
global military reach by testing its first intercontinental ballistic missile, the DF-5, with a range of 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles), and developing a thermonuclear warhead.
It is more realistic to expect that the new Arab elites will make use of their states’ authoritarian institutions, both to overcome resistance to their economic agendas and to consolidate their newly
acquired
power.
Now calls are growing for the government to surrender the special powers that it
acquired
during the war and end the control of information as an instrument of state policy.
Societies have also differed in how wealthy they allow their elites to become, and in their tolerance of the means by which wealth is
acquired
and used.
But, over the last decade, major European banks have
acquired
foreign banks through such mergers as the acquisition by Spain’s Banco Santander of the UK’s Abbey National, Italy’s UniCredito of Austria’s Hypovereinsbank and Holland’s ABN-AMRO.
If, in the meantime, the political system has not
acquired
more institutional cushioning, and the presidency’s unique legitimacy remains – like today – based merely on the public’s approval of an incumbent surrounded by shady and bickering Kremlin factions, there would be a high risk of chronic destabilisation.
The N-11 never
acquired
the cachet of the BRIC acronym, which I coined in 2001 to describe a bloc of emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) that stood to have a significant impact on the world economy in the future.
Meanwhile, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Chile have already
acquired
modest amounts of renminbi reserves.
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