21.   GAMES VIVENDI TO DISTRIBUTE GAMES Vivendi Universal has acquired exclusive rights to distribute new video games from Interplay Entertainment, the North American unit of Titus Interactive of France.

22.   GATES GETS ANSEL ADAMS WORK Bill Gates is acquiring electronic rights to the photographs of Ansel Adams, which are icons of the American wilderness.

23.   He also said the city had now acquired the right to examine the books of the transportation agency, gathering intelligence to fight some other time.

24.   He and Abbott acquired the rights to the Betty Smith novel, Arthur Schwartz and Dorothy Fields wrote the score, and Shirley Booth became the star.

25.   He has since acquired the rights to the property.

26.   He immediately borrowed money to travel to Berlin to acquire the rights to the technology.

27.   He quickly acquired more rights in what turned out to be one of the richest gas fields in the state, Lobo Trend.

28.   If the status is granted, they acquire all rights of Americans except the right to vote.

29.   In addition, Microsoft would acquire the rights to all future A.B. productions.

30.   In early March, Crystallex International Corp. said it acquired rights to part of the deposit, setting the stage for a legal fight about who owns Las Cristinas.