Acquiring a taste for acquisitions.
According to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.
2. In keeping with: according to instructions.
3. the chief executive officers of 440 fast-growing adj. 1. tending to spread quickly; - used mostly of plants.
Adj. 1. fast-growing - tending to spread quickly; "an aggressive tumor"
strong-growing, aggressive U.S.
companies with revenues ranging from $1 million to $50 million,
acquisitions are becoming a key to growth. Acquiring companies have
achieved revenues 2.4 times higher than similar nonacquiring companies.
[GRAPH graph, figure that shows relationships between quantities. The graph of a function y=f (x) is the set of points with coordinates [x, f (x)] in the xy-plane, when x and y are numbers. OMITTED]
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