Sentence examples for agb from inspiring English sources

One potential source of radionuclides is nucleosynthesis in stars ending their lives in catastrophic explosions called supernovas and in a class of dying stars known as asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars.

Such a system has been adopted by the 2 major audience-ratings firms, A.C. Nielsen, and AGB, and will be functioning in earnest in something like 2,000 Nielsen homes & 2,000 AGB homes by the start of the 1987-1988 televiseasoneaseason

Lawyers for AGB and Palmyra declined to comment.

The AGB principals tried to argue that they qualified for that exemption because the shares shorted were in an account for the benefit of the principals but bought in an account for a hedge fund they managed.

AGB and its principals consented to be censured and pay more than $50,000 in disgorgement and penalties.

AGB did the same in shares of Boots & Coots International Well Control in April 2007 and in shares of BGC Partners in June 2008.

Anthony Bastic, director of AGB Events, also curates and produces Sydney's wildly popular Vivid Light Walk, which helped attract 2.3m visitors last year.

But artistic director Giles Westley, of Sydney-based AGB Events, says the lack of light pollution and the darkness of central Australia "really lets us do new things.

That fund is AGB Partners of Los Angeles, whose principals are Gregory A. Bied of Boise, Idaho, and Andrew J. Goldberger of Santa Monica, Calif.

Nielsen Media Research International in Haarlem, the Netherlands, part of the Nielsen Media Research division of VNU, and the AGB Group in Milan, part of the Kantar division of the WPP Group, are forming the joint venture, expected to be completed in the fourth quarter, under the name AGB Nielsen Media Research, which is to be based in Milan.

Reality television shows have been around for a few years, but they began dominating the ratings late last year, according to AGB Nielsen Media Research, which tracks programs on Indonesia's 11 national stations as well as 10 local ones.