Last year trustees of Castle Howard in Yorkshire sold it at Sotheby's in London for $16 million, but Tessa Blackstone, Britain's arts minister, stopped the export of the painting to give the Tate time to raise $16 million to keep it from leaving Britain.
Known as "crumb", the realistic-looking foam material is not a singer's best friend, with its sound-insulating properties, and it is a devil to keep it from leaving the rehearsal space.
Now, in order to keep it from leaving Britain, an institution there has to raise £16.5 million (about $25.1 million), the price the Getty has agreed to pay for the painting.
Keep it vague, leave the objectives out of it.
Cover with a plate to keep it warm, leave for 10 minutes and knead briefly to smooth.
If they keep it up, leave a public request; knowing that your other friends can read it might shame them into ceasing.
Doesn't it shine right on your ears?' " The rancher told him that whatever the hat's failings, its aerodynamics kept it from leaving his head in a high wind and it also sluiced the rain like a clean storm gutter.
Similarly, if too many publishers and advertisers adopt Google's online-advertising platform, rivals will not be able "to mount a credible competitive challenge", as an internal Microsoft document puts it.Having failed to keep DoubleClick out of Google's clutches, Microsoft now hopes that Yahoo! will keep it from being left in the dust.
Mr Foote plans to keep it that way, leaving it to commercial lenders to scale up the business of lending to smallholder exporters.
Mr. Bush wanted to keep it going after leaving office, following in the footsteps of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, who also have spent much of their time since office on programs helping Africa.
