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Oyster wants to be the Spotify for e-books, offering a new way for readers to buy books (and for publishers to sell and market them).
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Since 1950, the Academy has required Oscar winners to sign an agreement stipulating that neither they--nor their heirs--will sell their statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for a buck.
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But as a practical matter at this late stage, Ignon makes a compelling case for offering incentives to executives who are trying to sell off company assets as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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For quite a while now, newspapers have taken to offering special subscription rates to sell more copies.
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Some plants are even offering cities long-term contracts to dump their recycling for free so that the plants can sell it high again when the market rebounds, according to Bear Keeling, manager of Latham Home Sanitation in Georgia.
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Their selling point is that they are free from the conflicts of interest that often bedevil bigger firms that may be offering guidance to companies while also hoping to win lucrative mandates to sell shares or bonds for them.
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Some have taken to consulting on art for airports and hotels, offering website-design advice to their peers, and talking about developing apps to sell to visitors in vast numbers, of course.
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Flubs include allowing for more orders than can be delivered on time, buying more inventory than an entrepreneur can sell and offering too big a discount.
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