41.   In the past month the real estate company, which has hedge-fund manager George Soros as a major shareholder, announced three major acquisitions.

42.   In the past, NationsBank has reserved such meetings for quarterly earnings reviews and major acquisitions, analysts said.

43.   It is the second major acquisition for Boeing in a year that has seen a Pentagon-backed realignment of the U.S. defense industry.

44.   It will be the fourth major acquisition National City has made in the last decade.

45.   Its major acquisitions in the last year have been in the natural gas market, mostly in Australia and Texas.

46.   Kingston becomes the most recent in a series of major Softbank acquisitions in the last several years.

47.   Mead said Tenneco also hopes to complete a major acquisition for its automotive parts division before yearend.

48.   Newman, who was deputy Treasury secretary, says no major acquisition is in the cards, though a few minor ventures will be sold.

49.   Not only was the transaction private, but shareholders never got a chance to vote on the purchase, a common practice when companies make major acquisitions.

50.   On Monday night, Hewlett-Packard appeared to be a big company that was making a major acquisition that would vault it into the status of a giant.