51.   Companies get acquired by larger corporations.

52.   Companies with concepts that caught the eye of eager investors could acquire companies many times their size.

53.   Compaq also has acquired several companies that make systems to link computers in networks, so it can sell entire computer systems and not just desktop PCs.

54.   Companies like Ling-Temco-Vought, Litton Industries, and Textron got huge by acquiring companies in a hodge-podge of industries.

55.   Consider Joe, the CEO of a large firm who volunteered to be laid off as his company was acquired.

56.   Corixa has grown its pipeline, in part, by acquiring other companies.

57.   Companies like General Electric and Westinghouse, sensing a big new market, plunged into robots by acquiring undercapitalized companies.

58.   Companies which may be targeted for takeover or play major roles in acquiring smaller companies were bid higher.

59.   David Wittig was brought in to help Western acquire companies and forge its entrepreneurial strategy.

60.   Dennis R. Washington, the chairman of the Washington Group, has built his reputation and fortune acquiring troubled companies, first with a privately held business.