Merrill has learned through experience how costly foreign acquisitions can be.

It spent $1.5 billion on foreign acquisitions last year.

The changing environment is having an impact even on American companies not involved in foreign acquisitions.

Recent foreign acquisitions of American companies provide further fuel for the controversy.

The deal represents the largest foreign acquisition by an Indian company.

There have been 600 foreign acquisitions this year alone, but most have not involved possible questions of national security.

The deal is China's biggest foreign acquisition to date.

I wonder if our government can do anything about this because it is a foreign acquisition.

At the time, this was the largest foreign acquisition by a Japanese company.

Indian companies have some good reasons for their foreign acquisitions.