But the potential sale has raised hackles in the region, still reeling from Russia's military campaign in Georgia.
The potential windfall has raised a grab bag of questions for museums large and small beyond, "Have you checked the basement lately?" What responsibility, for example, do institutions have to hold on to donated works and display them?
Artspace, an e-commerce startup that helps connect contemporary artists and galleries with potential customers, has raised a $2.5 million Series A funding round with participation from Felicis Ventures, Accelerator Ventures, Blue Equity LLC, and Metamorphic Ventures.
China's ambitions to control the South China Sea and its potential resources has raised concerns among the other countries that border the region.
The therapeutic potential of these nanomaterials has raised considerable interests in their use in potential next-generation strategies for effective anticancer therapy.
It was a moment that encapsulated both the promise and the unfulfilled potential of Mr. Zuma, who has raised the hopes of the dispossessed but not yet delivered the better life they are demanding.
The potential cost of the project has raised questions, too.
The movement toward one-stop shops has raised the potential for conflicts, which the S.E.C. sought to limit when it issued rules on auditor independence in November 2000.
Although organoarsenical pesticides are no longer applied to agricultural fields in the US, their widespread use until recently, toxicity, and potential transformation to inorganic arsenic has raised serious concern.
Egg yolk is most commonly used in semen extenders for cryopreservation but, wide variability in composition and potential risk of xenobiotic contamination has raised questions upon the use of egg yolk.
