11.   Fleet originally wanted to set aside a block of shares for potential acquisitions before the merger with BankBoston is finalized, but BankBoston vetoed the proposal.

12.   Fleet uses factors such as the age of a chairman and how many grandchildren he has as clues about when a potential acquisition target will sell.

13.   For example, it helps companies do background searches on potential acquisition targets or executives.

14.   Georgia-Pacific, the Atlanta-based paper and forest product concern, has been scouring scores of potential acquisition targets for more than a year.

15.   Hall declined to give potential acquisition targets.

16.   Hamm said the conversion to a publicly held company would enable it to offer stock, not just cash, for any potential acquisitions.

17.   He declined to say whether ISS had been approached as a potential acquisition.

18.   In discussing its future, Aetna has told Wall Street analysts that one of the most prized attributes of potential acquisitions would be large concentrations of customers.

19.   Industry executives have speculated that Apple is a potential acquisition target of International Business Machines Corp., Oracle Corp. and Sony Inc.

20.   In the SEC filing, American Home Products said its senior executives had been discussing potential acquisitions for more than a year.