21.   But most of that money will very likely be spent financing a spate of recent acquisitions, including two sports teams, a cable network and a casino owner.

22.   But Sunday, the recent acquisition from the Houston Astros removed one of the glazed morsels from his stat sheet.

23.   But the performance of its recent acquisitions has been lackluster, company officials acknowledge.

24.   But things went downhill quickly, largely because of problems in two recent acquisitions, Rauch and Silvestri.

25.   Ceska Sporitelna also is looking weaker because of recent acquisitions of stakes in banks and other financial institutions some investors consider risky, Anderegg said.

26.   Coming full circle, Louis talks excitedly of the recent acquisition by Ohio University in Athens of the complete Nikolais-Louis archives.

27.   Clear Channel Communications Inc. said it plans to continue to expand outside the U.S., building on a recent acquisition of a radio station in Prague.

28.   Compared to some recent Lucent acquisitions, however, Excel is a graybeard.

29.   Connecticut stocks were little changed as shares of Aetna Inc. gained and Advanced Technology Materials Inc. fell, both on investor expectations of recent acquisitions.

30.   Discounting the effects of recent acquisitions, JDS Uniphase is facing its first quarterly sales drop.