In December 2008 the museum negotiated a $30 million bailout from Eli Broad, Los Angeles's leading cultural patron, which allowed it to maintain its facilities and avoid selling off artwork.
Far from looking for ways to avoid selling off the masterpieces, Shields and the board seem to have tried from the very beginning to insure that those pieces would get sold no matter what.
Last year she agreed to pay $25,000 to her creditors in order to avoid selling off the rights to her life story.
These payments helped people avoid selling off household seeds, animals or other assets to buy food and bought them time and breathing room to resume their own agricultural production.
But if the backup fund helps SIVs avoid sell-off, those investors may lose less money.
"If land can be preserved and restored," Mr. Cook said, "it could potentially change the way Americans feel about burial". The future of green burial may lie with people like Jerry Draper, 53, a computer systems analyst and organic farmer in San Anselmo who is thinking about putting in a green cemetery on an 11-acre lot he owns to avoid selling it off for subdivisions.
To avoid his selling off the wood in secret, some sort of regular, for example monthly, supervision would have to be provided at the level of the providing (village) jurisdiction.
Murdoch's own Wall Street Journal reported that, other than CNN which he offered to sell off to avoid regulatory backlash Murdoch wanted to buy all of Time Warner.
The auction resulted from Debbie Reynolds' need to sell off assets to avoid bankruptcy.
The Federal Trade Commission, which sometimes orders companies to sell off parts to avoid monopolizing a market after a merger, told the two supermarket heavyweights to unload 168 stores.
Last year competition authorities announced that Cineworld must sell off three outlets to avoid restricting consumer choice in some towns.
