41.   He said the recent acquisitions were planned a while ago, noting the company is looking to acquire technology and products in all of its medical device lines.

42.   HFS Inc. said second-quarter earnings more than doubled from a year earlier, helped by its recent acquisitions of real estate brokerage chains.

43.   Houston Exploration will use the proceeds to repay debt under a credit line and to pay the cash portion of a recent acquisition.

44.   Hvide, which provides vessel support and transportation services for the energy and chemical industries, planned to use proceeds from the sale to reduce debt from recent acquisitions.

45.   However, recent acquisitions are supplementing these sources.

46.   If the two evolved together, language must be a fairly recent human acquisition.

47.   It also has another advantage in its recent acquisition of Trillium, a British company that specializes in handling real estate for large companies.

48.   Isolyser has made several recent acquisitions of companies that can produce the dissolvable products.

49.   It also has entered the outpatient surgical business with two recent acquisitions.

50.   It is a blueprint that has won New Times prizes from national journalism contests and the anger of journalists who lost their jobs in recent acquisitions.