For a long time, people thought that bilingualism was a handicap, that it stunted development and language acquisition.

that it stunted development and language acquisition.

And hence the acquisition of books must have also become very easy.

just language acquisition,

language acquisition,

A recent acquisition.

One of the things since the EMC acquisition

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And that, combined with a competition, is really, you know, what we think, is driving the lower acquisition and lower growth.

the lower acquisition and lower growth.

The second thing, and I think this might be more interesting, is something called the Natural Order of Language Acquisition.

It's one of Steven Krashen's, sort of, principles of language acquisition.

You buy a company and fund much of the purchase price with debt or leverage, often in the form of bonds. So essentially, you could buy a really massive company and load it up with debt to pay for your acquisition of that company. And if the company goes bust, you don't lose as much as if you paid for the whole thing with cash. Let's get back to the UK. To understand what's been going on here, we're going to look at Morrisons. For much of its existence, it was family owned. And until recently, it was one of the big four supermarket chains.

and it pulled Time Warner after the acquisition all the way down. But it was only that they