Bill Gates, who doesn't spend much quality time in the art market, did buy a beautiful Winslow Homer for a record price, but this wasn't Alan Bond flexing his flabby muscles.
But don't count out Alan Arkin ("Argo"), Tommy Lee Jones ("Lincoln"), Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained") or even Philip Seymour Hoffman ("The Master").
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"I don't think they will continue with Alan because they don't agree with the way we've been doing things, they've made that clear to me, " he said.
Because of the reputation that precedes him, that won't be the problem for Alan.
"We didn't hear anybody screaming about Alan Hutton that day, " he added.
The likes of Chris Meloni, Lucas Black, Alan Tudyk, T.
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He'll have specific ideas on what's going wrong and what's needed to put it right, but coaching is knowing how to take a session - and Alan doesn't have that yet because he's never done it before.
For whatever reason, Alan Hardwick hasn't taken that route and on Monday Neil Rhodes reverts to being deputy chief constable.
Now, this is not to say that Alan Greenspan hasn't merited it.
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Because your co-director Alan Mak didn't seem terribly impressed, for a start he thought it was really, really similar to your original, and also he just didn't like the happily-ever-after ending.
"There is a lot of member contact going on right now that isn't so obvious, " said Alan Lizotte, dean and professor at the State University of New York at Albany's School of Criminal Justice.
"The gay and lesbian community is a growing vibrant consumer group and (advertisers) shouldn't ignore that fact, " says Alan Klein of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, a media watchdog group.
All told, Britain's economic performance didn't improve markedly post-Thatcher, says Alan Booth, an economic historian at the University of Exeter.
"My feeling is that Singapore isn't foreigner-friendly anymore, " said Alan Chen, 37 years old, who is from Shanghai and moved to Singapore five years ago to work in the logistics industry.
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In a "grantor trust, " for example, the tax is paid by the person who sets up the trust, so it doesn't drain assets from the trust itself, says Alan Kufeld, a certified public accountant at Rothstein Kass's family-office group.
"CEOs say their people are fundamentally honest, or you can't teach values, but I disagree, " says Alan Yuspeh, HCA's top ethics official.
It will go down under the heading of 'things you wish you had never said' - alongside Alan Hansen's 'you don't win anything with kids' comment on Match of the Day eight years ago.
Suggesting that no one get paid because the company lost money is a bit like suggesting baseball players shouldn't be paid because the team lost money, says Alan Johnson, who runs his own compensation consulting firm in New York.
It was their way or you don't do it, and it will be the same with Alan.
"The Volt isn't just about how many cars we sell, " said Alan Batey, vice president of Chevrolet Sales.
Sometimes I'd say, 'Oh, it would be great to have the rhythm section here, ' and Alan would answer, 'I don't think it needs it.
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Alan Hirsch of the University of Minnesota didn't want to revisit the FDA decision, and Harvard's Thomas Graboys said he had little to add.
Some Wall Street wags propose that a collection be taken up to give Alan a basket of stocks so he won't feel so left out.
Hitchhike through rural Maine with Alan Parker, a college student whose car couldn't have broken down at a more inopportune time.
Lawyers for Perdue, which owned the chickens, and the Hudson family said chicken manure wasn't getting out in great enough amounts to pollute, and farmer Alan Hudson testified that he took steps to avoid pollution and to keep the manure in chicken houses.
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