It will now be freer to court high-profile sellers more aggressively—and also to invest in selling more lower-priced pieces, which in the topsy-turvy art world offer higher margins than the big-ticket lots auction houses fight over. Boosting online auctions would help here. So would more private sales—where Sotheby’s acts as a broker and which have grown fast, reaching $1 billion last year. Alex Maroccia of Berenberg, a bank, says it may spend more on r&d. Last year it bought Thread Genius, an artificial-intelligence startup that identifies artworks and can recommend similar items to losing bidders.

Buyers and sellers of all but the priciest pieces may rue the increased opacity of the houses’ already baffling commissions. But one group (besides Sotheby’s investors) will rejoice. Some of Mr Drahi’s fellow plutocrats make a killing from financing the guarantees that auction houses offer. For them, the more art that goes under the hammer, the better.

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Toeic 閱讀線上班開課囉 evernote, quizlet

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多益題目講解 carry out, carry away, carry through, carry on [Evernote]


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Waterproof Wings
The wings of butterflies don't just help the insects fly. They also repel water. The wings do it so well, in fact, that an international team of engineers now sees them as models for how future airplanes could be made. Moisture makes flight less efficient.

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沒有無法達成的夢想,只有太早放棄的自己。
No dreams are unachievable; only those that were given up too soon.

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默默耕耘, 期待收穫 ! 

耳朵學英文-[12]-1  

目前講解的線上課程是Time 導讀 330, Economist 導讀 321

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youtube Economist 林威老師 經濟學人導讀 國會被久占 經濟學人 極罕見 

 

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耳朵學英文 [9] http://kkbox.fm/Da0Dha

 

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金沙大計劃ing

真正的英文實力就在每日的累積 

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國際觀是閱讀大量的外語雜誌而產生的能力 !!
同學們! 加入英文百寶箱吧 !!

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