31.   General manager Dan Duquette was praised all winter for his major acquisitions, Canseco and Mark Whiten.

32.   He and quarterback Chris Chandler were the first major acquisitions by coach Dan Reeves.

33.   He contends that the current doldrums are simply part of the normal cycle that every business goes through, especially when digesting major acquisitions.

34.   He recently put Sunbeam in play, saying the appliance maker was looking either to be acquired or to make a major acquisition of its own.

35.   He said that there would be no major new acquisitions and that the company would seek to lower its debt and augment cash flow while seeking savings from synergies.

36.   Hideki Irabu and Graeme Lloyd, an Australian, represent the major acquisitions Loria has made in the early days of his expanded life.

37.   If Lopez falters, Schuerholz will pursue a major acquisition.

38.   IBM had been gaining on Oracle recently but trailed by so much that substantially closing the gap without a major acquisition seemed unlikely.

39.   If successful, a Gehe acquisition of Lloyds would be its third major acquisition in three years.

40.   If successful, it would be the second major acquisition by Gehe in Britain in less than a year.