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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pizza-delivery van until her pregnancy made her too sick to continue. Now a few days a week, De-Shawto gets up before dawn at their temporary home at the Barbara Bonner Family Shelter and heads off to work prepping cars to be sold at a local auto-auction facility. He's lucky to take home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Place Like Home | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

Callaway gave Kirk a $20,000 advance, and when Miss Spider was more or less ready for her public, he organized an auction among 15 children's publishers for the book. Only Scholastic bid. Tea Party jumped to the best-seller lists within a month of publication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toy Boy | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...homes once owned by Chinese actress Liu Xiaoqing, who has been fined for tax evasion, were sold at a government auction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...collection was donated in 1981 by Frederick R. Koch ’55, who had acquired the photographs at auction. Although a few of them were featured in Vogue and other magazines, many were privately commissioned portraits or photographs of friends—the pieces that Lynes kept for his personal collection, Wilson says...

Author: By Julia E. Twarog, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pusey Displays Long-Lost Celebrity Photographs | 1/10/2003 | See Source »

Take in a ball game at the stadium that bore Enron's name, and you'll be sitting in a place now called Minute Maid Park. The tilted E that blazed in front of Enron's Houston headquarters is gone, sold at auction. At its offices, a pared-down staff administers old contracts and remaining assets like gas pipelines and power plants. It's nothing like the days when secretaries received gifts of Waterford crystal and executives jetted to luxury resorts to party. Enron's Christmas bash this year: an afternoon gathering in the lobby with coffee, cookies and music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enron: Picking Over the Carcass | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

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