Agora is currently owned by RIT Capital Partners and Lord Rothschild's family interests, along with management.
It somehow reminds me ... of something in ancient Greece, the agora, the marketplace.
No longer do people have to gather round the agora to do their business.
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On the positive side, I like that Balanced considers themselves an escrow agent in an agora setting.
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Three Agora wells are currently operating - two exploration wells (Skarfjell and Cladhan South) and one appraisal well (Tybalt).
Next week I go to Vancouver to speak at the Agora Investment Symposium.
The traditional town meeting has its roots in the agora of ancient Athens, a place for sober, if contentious, deliberation.
Recommendations: crab cakes, sea bass, lobster salad, the sashimi and sushi combination, and the shad and shad roe.l Agora-1586 First Ave.
It took thousands of peasants beyond the Agora to support the work of one intellectual aristocrat such as Plato or Aristophanes.
The system coped with the first influx of renewable energy, says Rainer Baake, who heads a lobby group called Agora Energiewende.
Those specs should tell you that the Agora phone isn't aimed at the high end, but despite that, the build quality is solid.
The debate over whether we are in for inflation or deflation was alive and well at the Agora Symposium in Vancouver this week.
Bartering is as old as the ancient agora of Athens, when currency took many forms (okay, I had to get that ethnic plug in somewhere).
Edinburgh-based Cairn said the move would add drilling to its 2012 exploration programme, with up to nine Agora wells scheduled to be drilled off the UK and Norway.
As for Agora, some in the government have made much of the fact that the scandal came to light only after a steady slide in Gazeta Wyborcza's circulation.
It also cross-sells hotels owned by Agora Hospitality in Japan.
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You wander around the agora and find that others are selling bowls quite similar to yours, meaning that you are in control of neither the supply nor the price.
Bill Bonner, founder of Agora and a book-writing machine, has a steel-trap mind with an ability to turn a phrase that is way beyond that of your humble analyst.
The purchase includes Agora's 15% stake in the Catcher area planned for development and a 20% interest in the Tybalt discovery, which both have further drilling programmes planned this year.
Portcullis House, a parliamentary complex whose bland, airport-like atrium has become the 21st-century agora of British politics, pullulates with MPs from the 2010 Tory intake (who make up nearly half the parliamentary party).
Kogan has released a budget-friendly netbook ( back when netbooks existed), laptop and tablet, and now its got a new product to show us here at CES -- the Agora smartphone.
Marketplaces, be they Ebay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ), the New York Stock Exchange, a Middle Eastern souk or an ancient agora, share a common characteristic: They are forums that bring together buyers and sellers.
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