"I think the way forward for us is to think of a book town as not just about books as physical objects but as a place where ideas are traded - and not just literary ideas".
Soon they were trading ideas for the new show.
At a long table, four guys with laptops were trading ideas.
I imagine many voters would be horrified by the idea of power being traded around at Westminster with barrels of political pork being offered to bribe the smaller parties into one camp or another.
At the other extreme, romantic types regard a lake or sea as a friendly space where ideas, expertise and merchandise are traded to perpetual mutual advantage.
Dickey, McKinnis added, has adjusted to the idea that he may be traded.
The natural pivot for this story is toward the Knicks, although ESPN.com's Chris Sheridan throws a bucket of water on the idea that Anthony will be traded there.
The idea of oil not being traded in dollars is nothing new (Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein used the euro to price oil sold into the U.N.'s Oil for Food program) and if investors took the report seriously, the greenback would be in much worse shape.
Most are still adamantly opposed to the idea that all standardized contracts be traded on exchanges.
This resistance was important not only because it reinforced the idea that water could not be traded like a commodity, but also because there was clear opposition to wider neo-liberal, privatisation models.
