At a time newspapers are seeking more and more ways to save money in printing -- and at a time when more and more consumers are buying computers for home use -- how long will it be before
agate type is eliminated?
"
Agates show us one way that nature makes repetitive patterns," Heaney says.
"Anyone in that
Agate board room could have stood up and said, 'This seems like a little more money than we deserve.' As far as I know, nobody did," said a doctor and
Agate shareholder who spoke to The Register-Guard on condition of anonymity.
The bizarre road rage incident came after black-haired Mrs
Agate went to Sainsbury's in Purley Way, Croydon, Surrey, to collect last-minute items for a dinner party planned with her husband Alan, a businessman.
The troubled years leading up to
Agate's sale and the big payouts to
Agate shareholders have left critics of the sale bitter about how Trillium treated patients and worried about patients' future under Centene.
The $22 million apparently was paid to
Agate's 218 shareholders in the same way the $109 million was paid.
The revenue growth, and
Agate's track record of being able to pull increasing profits out of the money it was receiving from the government, burnished
Agate's value.
Figures are based on individual shareholder information in
Agate's official June 29, 2015, sales plan document, which was obtained by The Register-Guard.
It was publicly known that Centene bought
Agate for $80 million to $130 million and that shareholders profited, but it wasn't known who got rich from the deal - or how rich.
On Saturday, expect closures and traffic changes in the University of Oregon neighborhood, including
Agate Street to Fairmount Boulevard between 15th Avenue and 19th Avenue; 18th Avenue by the athletic fields; and Alder Street between 18th and 13th.
7, 2015): Several shareholders in
Agate Resources Inc., the parent company of Trillium Community Health Plan, have sued the state and The Register-Guard to block release of records identifying
Agate shareholders.