Rather major houses' willingness to take these authors on indicates a much deeper problem in the industry and one that really does threaten its future.
While everyone in the art world agrees it was a coup for Phillips rather than its larger rivals to get the rights to sell the Cezanne, what clearly tipped Berggruen in its favor was the auction house's willingness to underwrite the collection's sale and then hope to regain its expenditure at auction.
Mr. House said the willingness of Americans to gamble big might be a key factor.
Real-world implementation depends on identifying a suitable host for the clearing house, and the willingness of participating networks to identify volunteer specialists and keep the information up to date.
In our study, distance to hazard, household size, children, older people, and housing material have no significant relationship to household relocation willingness.
The possible sale has captivated the attention of the book industry because AOL Time Warner's books division, home to Little, Brown and Warner Books, is one of the handful of major houses with the willingness and wherewithal to spend heavily to acquire and market books.
One hallmark of last decade's go-go housing market: the willingness of buyers to base their purchase on a gamble.
With regard to household characteristics, consistent with hypothesis H4, income, social support (financial help), and loss have significant coefficients on household relocation willingness, while inconsistent with hypothesis H4, distance to hazard, household size, children, older people, and housing material have no significant coefficients on household relocation willingness.
But arguably neither is scrapping them, since – even if you could somehow get a political mandate to scrap every private and grammar school in Britain tomorrow – parents would always find a way to game the system; we'd still have selection by house price, or by willingness to feign religious conviction, or some other ingenious new wheeze.
Her knowledge of private sector housing is useful and she has the chance to develop a new career in social housing which might interest her. 2 Social housing landlords would also be keen to recruit somebody like Jackie as a community development officer because of her management skills, her perspective on housing issues and her willingness to learn new skills.
The average value of those loans was 11.8% higher at £146,100, reflecting rising house prices and lenders' increasing willingness to lend at higher loan-to-values.
