71.   The deal was done through New York-based Kimco Realty Corp., which acquired the properties at a bankruptcy auction.

72.   The properties were acquired from company chairman Lee Wing-sum, company director Toh Shung-chee and independent third parties.

73.   Top Glory will continue to acquire hotel properties in Chengdu, Harbin and Qingdao owned by Top Glory Holdings.

74.   Tribespeople in the region often claim squatters rights, saying many of the land owners duped poor people to acquire vast properties.

75.   He and his wife have bought themselves a farm in southwestern France in preference to acquiring property in the Paris area.

76.   A little-known group on Tuesday filed graft charges against former president Corazon Aquino for allegedly acquiring property of an in-law of deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos illegally.

77.   The properties had been acquired in recent years by the Swedish Coronado group which had gone bankrupt.

78.   Rais also faced charges of acquiring property through deception, but these were dropped in response to his guilty plea.

79.   SE-Banken had acquired the properties as a creditor and had decided to sell them.

80.   The judge gave ATT permission to acquire cellular telephone properties in Houston, Texas and Los Angeles which are owned by McCaw and the regional Bell telephone companies.