The idea that mining licences and mobile spectrum should be auctioned, not given to government friends, is widely held.

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The court said that if a natural resource was going to benefit the poor, then it did not have to be auctioned.

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We need to tackle global climate change by establishing an economywide cap on carbon emissions and making sure that carbon permits are auctioned, not given away.

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The company notes that the WCS spectrum was first auctioned in 1997, but has not been utilized for mobile Internet usage due to technical rules designed to avoid possible interference to satellite radio users in adjacent spectrum bands.

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Meantime, paging companies have not built out services on much of the spectrum auctioned by the FCC earlier in the decade.

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Yesterday I wrote that the Dodgers were likely to be auctioned off by MLB because the team does not have the cash to meet payroll this month.

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The bust, which weighs between 30 and 50kg, was auctioned off after the new owners of the building decided not to keep it.

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One of the few Ethiopian Caterpillars not owned by an institution--the Fondation Sandoz has two of them--was auctioned by Sotheby's last year for 404, 500 CHF.

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