In good times these guarantees offer the auction houses a means of hugely increasing their earnings.
An auction did offer a chance to win part ownership of a Thoroughbred race horse, and the luncheon also honored a well-known female Thoroughbred owner and breeder.
The auction will offer the equivalent of three-quarters of the mobile spectrum in use today, some 80% more than was released in the 3G auction in 2000.
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Broomer believes she is one of only a handful of specialists who deal full-time in relics and reliquaries (vessels that contain relics), though Christie's and other auction houses offer them for sale occasionally.
Advisers must find out if a work has been shopped to death or ever failed to sell at auction, offer a report on the work's condition, judge how significant the piece was in the artist's career and then ascertain that the piece is neither stolen nor fake.
All that said, the banks that regard themselves as strongest have a particular incentive to resist pressure from the Bank of England and the Treasury not to take too much of the money on offer in tomorrow's auction and in the so-called Funding for Lending scheme that will be launched next month.
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On the same day as Christie's antique sale, its New York competitor will offer an "Arcade Jewelry" auction.
The enterprising Ms Ruddock persuaded seven businesses - in finance, fashion, architecture, art and publishing - to offer work placements which she could auction.
Unlike a casual offer at an airport kiosk, the auction system can generate excitement as fliers strategize about how to win.
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After four days of bidding Mr Rice made the highest offer during a live on-air auction on Hugo Duncan's Country Afternoon on BBC Radio Ulster on Thursday.
The Treasury plans to buy huge amounts of distressed debt using a reverse auction process, where banks offer to sell at a price and the government buys from the lowest price upwards.
Its competitors are unable to offer 4G until the conclusion of a spectrum auction scheduled for early next year.
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They all offer many of the wines found at traditional auction houses, including first-growth Bordeaux, grand cru Burgundy and great Super Tuscans.
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Later it is due to hold another auction to sell off licences to offer the same services but over a different, 42Ghz, radio band.
In 2010 an auction of new spectrum allowed his mobile competitors to offer 3G mobile-data services.
She finds the relentless pace at which auction houses, art fairs and gallery franchises currently offer contemporary works, and the sheer volume of art on offer, troubling.
Demand for Italian government bonsd during a recent auction dropped to 1.47 times the amount on offer, from 1.57 times last month.
The whole point of the auction was to find out what the highest bidders would offer for the assets: not very much, it would seem.
The credit rating agency referenced the December 3 offer by the Greek government to private investors to participate in a Dutch auction to exchange their sovereign bonds for short-term paper issued by the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).
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Profiles in History, dealers of Hollywood artifacts, is holding yet another auction where one-of-a-kind treasures are on offer.
We will not offer a better way simply by aping Labour's approach in a Dutch auction of ever-higher spending promises.
Both Putnam and Premier offer leases on new exotic cars through dealerships, and classic cars sold privately or at auction.
The base at Neatishead, near Wroxham, was put back on offer on the site last month after having failed to sell the first time it was put up for auction.
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Consummation of the transaction with Brother is subject to court approval and a marketing period in which Kodak may seek to obtain a higher or better offer for the business, alone or in combination with other businesses, including through a court-approved auction.
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Steve Yankovich, vice president of eBay Mobile, said it plans to take advantage of the always-on ability of the apps to offer features that it can't include on its website, such as notifying users when bidding on an auction item is about to end.
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