Even if the Treasury is disappointed, the auction may be good news for the 4G rollout.
The auction house said the collection went for twice as much as the original estimate.
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Smelling a bargain, resorts from Mount Hood Meadows to California's Squaw Valley awaited the auction.
Tuesday's winning bid came only several minutes before the auction closed at 4 pm ET.
In simulations run without the auction, some of the ambulances were left standing idle.
Consequently, the auction process encourages companies to bid so low that they drive out legitimate suppliers.
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The book will tour various cities in the US before the auction on 26 November.
As Painter interrupted the auction, his BlackBerry aloft, the auctioneer eyed him but never broke patter.
If no investor steps up, the business will likely be on the auction block once again.
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Weak sentiment for risk was reflected in the auction of 10-year U.S. Treasury notes.
Some exchanges remain stubbornly rooted in the auction system, though that seems likely to change, too.
The auction was for Aage Niels Bohr's 1975 honor, not his father Niels Bohr's 1922 honor.
No one from Google or eBay had contacted him about the auction, he said.
The auction will determine how newly available signal spectrum will be offered to the other networks.
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The auction catalogue described it as offering "huge scope and potential" for a new owner.
Instructions for submitting the deposit can be found on the auction listing page.
"Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry "asked for a really big gun, " the auction house said.
The auction produced higher yields, at 4.83%, but was fairly well subscribed by investors.
It also means serious competitors must keep a close eye on the auction until the end.
Google even helped persuade the FCC to change the auction rules for part of the spectrum.
The FCC says it has taken pains to make the auction process easy to navigate.
No sentimentalist, Boyd soon dropped Priceline's exclusive focus on the auction technology that made it famous.
Only 1, 700 go to the U.S. It's not for sale, except on the auction market.
Yet Smith's artwork, which is based on bookbinding, fetches impressive prices on the auction block.
The auction attracted bids from a consortium backed by Goldman Sachs, an American investment bank.
Follow the auction live starting Monday at 7pm EST on the Fasig-Tipton website.
"I've kept enough back...just enough, " Clapton says in an interview published in the auction catalog.
The auction also includes 25 instruments donated by the likes of the Who's Pete Townshend .
About 400 members from the art, design, fashion and business communities attended the auction.
Now the auction was supposed wrap up over the last week, but it drew little interest.
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