The sale comes from a private vendor who bought it from a research and development company, which in turn had bought it from the government.
Its success outside America has been patchy: just 9% of its subscribers in London have ever bought anything from it.
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Augusta, who has represented collections for the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, bought it from a man who found it at an estate sale in Newark, N.
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He, and several investment groups, bought it from Turner in 2008 and made it independent.
For 30 years, only a handful of utilities companies bought uranium, and they bought it from a uranium trader like Atlanta-based American Fuels Resources or New York Nuclear Corp.
So, I bought it from the HBR website, downloaded and read it.
But it's unnerving that Jabil won't even say how much revenue it gets from companies that it has bought operations from.
Merrill didn't even take much of a hit from a subprime mortgage operation it bought from Cleveland-based National City (nyse: NCC - news - people ) last year, right before all the troubles in the sector started.
Best Buy to scope out electronics and then gone and bought it from Amazon.
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''Unfortunately, the family I bought it from (Lord Hesketh) had sold the contents at auction earlier, '' he says puffing on a Marlboro Light cigarette.
The seller had bought it from the Chicago-based dealer Taylor B.
The signed print, entitled No Ball Games, was recovered after a member of the public bought it from the suspect and became suspicious of the transaction, police said.
Amazon is of course a big beneficiary to this and during the holidays actually offered an incentive to shoppers who scanned a product in stores and then bought it from them.
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You bought it from a wire rack in the bus terminal, less than a dollar a shot, and took home Alfred Bester, Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Sheckley, and many others and then you saw things differently, in extraordinary company.
For example, one of our planners wrote a blog post about how her mother-in-law benefited from the income she earned from a bond fund even though it actually lost value from the time she bought it.
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CropScience was formed from the merger of Bayer's existing agrochemicals business with the one it bought from Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ).
It was bought in 1998 from Ukraine, where it had been rusting half-finished since its first launch a decade earlier.
If it bought lots of ethanol from its neighbours, it would be providing them with a lucrative export of their own.
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The publisher has offered refunds to consumers who bought the book directly from it.
Deutsche Bank has a small bank in Italy, which it bought from Bank of America in 1986.
Ashanti, a gold producer, nearly went bankrupt because of derivatives it bought from, among others, Goldman Sachs.
Chesapeake has said it will re-sell 25% of what it bought from Anschutz.
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The assets it bought from Exxon Mobil have more than 68 million barrels of oil equivalents in proved reserves.
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Aron sent much of the oil it bought from Semgroup to a Coffeyville, Kans. refinery in which Goldman owns a 30% stake.
Providence intends to attract multi-national energy giants to "farm in" to its licence, which it bought from the Irish government for a nominal fee.
Down 80% in the bear market, it makes an exceptional line of small, fuel-efficient cars (and also now Jaguar, which it bought from Ford in 2008).
Such a contract might be used to finance the purchase of goods thus: The faux buyer would promise his bank to buy the goods from it in the event the bank bought them from the seller.
Take it from a guy named Keith who nearly bought it at the entrance to a Target in Buffalo.
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