Come New Year's Day with the enactment of AB376 in California, it will be "unlawful for any person to possess, sell, offer for sale, trade, or distribute a shark fin".
Burns, noting their desperation to sell, offers them $50 million for the plant, and they reluctantly accept half of what they paid him.
It is illegal to show a horse, enter it at a horse show, or to auction, sell, offer for sale, or transport a horse for any of these purposes if it has been sored.
So companies, well aware of what sells, offer endless iterations of operas like "La Bohème" and "La Traviata".
Trading is getting faster: unlike the NYSE, where human specialists match buy and sell offers, Archipelago does everything electronically.
But its success has drawn sharp criticism from analysts who wonder if it can sustain its growth and continue to persuade retailers to sell offers on its site.
Over a year ago, the C.F.T.C. sensibly proposed a system in which buy and sell offers would be electronically posted and widely accessible.
One study, commissioned by the Managed Funds Association, found that trade volume dropped 13 percent in those stocks subject to disclosure rules in Britain and the gap between the buy and sell offers on a stock increased 45 percent.
Competing securities dealers exchange buy and sell offers over a computer network.
A lack of volume on the Internet-based futures leads to punishingly large spreads between the few buy and sell offers, often a couple of cents instead of the quarter-penny typical on rival contracts.
