At one point, the Nasdaq screen which provides a list of bid and asked prices showed no Yahoo!

ECONOMIST: Technology shares

This helped smooth a telephone conversation between the two men on December 15th, steering it away from the touchy subject of Canada's apparent exclusion from the list of 63 allies allowed to bid on primary reconstruction contracts.

ECONOMIST: Canada's new government

The council is creating the allotments on a site it owns in Maidenhead to try and shorten its waiting list of about 400 people, who will be able to bid on half of the plots exclusively.

BBC: Allotment