If the acquisition is successful, the searcher takes over as CEO and runs the acquired company.

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The searcher raises initial capital from investors to fund his search (average length: 18 months) and then returns to those investors seeking additional capital for an acquisition once he finds a suitable target.

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An information theorist would answer thus: if each letter is equally likely to occur, the uncertainty is complete and a searcher does not know which of the letters to expect.

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That decline was accompanied by a 7% drop in the number of searches per searcher and an 8% spike in vertical searches.

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The internet and Wine-searcher.com can be your friend, as well.

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Those who want to lock in the hot-ticket 2003s should shop around, something Internet sites like Wine-Searcher.com have made almost ridiculously easy.

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