For example, in 2000, in an arrangement that came to be known as the "Lerner Exchange," Black personally acquired Chicago's Lerner Newspapers and sold it to Hollinger.

'The General' was obviously interested in personally acquiring the Old Academy and starting a school of his own design.

Price then allows everyone dealing in a commodity or its substitutes to make decisions based on more information than he or she could personally acquire, information not statistically conveyable to a centralized authority.

In 2006 The Economist reported a complex series of transactions between 1989 and 1997 through which Martin and Olivier Bouygues were able to personally acquire assets in the firm, to the detriment of other shareholders.

He personally acquired hundreds of acres of land during this time and owned and ran Glenn Realty.

In 1885, mainly through a series of dubious treaties and contracts, Léopold personally acquired a huge slice of central Africa - an area 70 times larger than Belgium.

Squire Boone personally acquired a large tract of land on the western edge of the township near the cave he and his brother had hid in many years earlier to evade Indians.

UNA's live lion mascot tradition began in 1973, when then-President Dr. Robert Guillot personally acquired a 12-pound lion cub, now known as Leo I, from a Knoxville, Tennessee, zoo.

In fact, Stanley was financed by Leopold II of Belgium, who intended to acquire personally a large piece of Africa.

Pearl continued personally acquiring and letting properties for ten years from offices in Clarence Road, in London's East End borough of Hackney.