21.   Mediacom is also an acquisition candidate, he added, as larger cable operators expand their service areas.

22.   S.I.N.C.L.A.R.E. said its management is reviewing possible acquisition candidates, and is engaged in early stage preliminary discussions with one of them.

23.   Strong acquisition candidates also include companies with a strong asset base that would provide additional barrels of oil and gas following an acquisition.

24.   The analyst suggested that Conoco, Burlington Resources and Marathon Oil might make good acquisition candidates.

25.   There are no large obvious acquisition candidates for them.

26.   To hear him tell it, Honeywell was one of many companies he had planned to discuss with his successor as possible acquisition candidates.

27.   While selling Arnold is an option Eskandarian might exercise someday, most other local agencies are not seen as attractive acquisition candidates because of their smaller size.

28.   With a small executive team, Tyco sifts through hundreds of proposed acquisition candidates, creating a portfolio of companies in seemingly mundane industries.

29.   Wyser-Pratte specializes in takeover arbitrage, or investing in companies that are or may become acquisition candidates.