BTR, Britain's ninth-largest company based on market capitalization, is one of this nation's most acquisitive.

On top of that, German companies have become among the world's most acquisitive.

Two decades ago ITT became something of a phenomenon under the leadership of Harold S. Geneen, perhaps the most acquisitive chief executive in history.

LET'S face it: a majority of gardeners - even the most acquisitive - will never own an elegant glass palm house.

Partly through Barnes and partly through his own energy, Guillaume met many of the world's most acquisitive collectors and curators.

The company, which recently bought Chock Full o'Nuts, the coffee marketer, said its year, which ends in July, should be among its most acquisitive.

The High King, Your Majesty must be aware, is a most acquisitive and stubborn monarch.

Some of them even collected art, the most acquisitive being William T. Evans, a dry-goods tycoon who had moved there from New York in 1900.

If the deal is completed, Washington Mutual, one of the most acquisitive savings institutions, will have quadrupled in size in about a year.

The newest and most acquisitive of these is Bruegger's Bagels, a chain based in Burlington, Vt.