Several studies show that firstborns and only children usually reach higher educational goals, obtain greater prestige and acquire more net worth, while the middle child is likely to struggle a bit more.

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To acquire the land, the purchaser must obtain a permit from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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The rest is history: Saddam exploited the opportunity thus afforded to him to acquire state-of-the-art manufacturing technology and componentry critical to his efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction, advanced conventional armaments and other dangerous capabilities.

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