Word: auction
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...home recovering from hip replacement surgery, Gates filled long hours by reading, among other things, the antique auction catalogs that arrived in his mail...
Gates’s acquisition of the manuscript has stirred wide interest in the work even though at the time of the auction, few others believed the document was really written by an escaped slave...
...auction of photographs and Julia paraphernalia followed, in which bidding for a whisk reportedly purloined from Child’s own kitchen hovered at $300. When a 10-person dinner cooked by chefs from Rialto and Oleanna was tacked onto the offer, the closing bid came...
...Foreman and Boy weren't. Politico George is used to spending time with monkeys. "People send me Curious George paraphernalia," he said. Plimpton found relief from turbulent times: "Children's literature," he said, "is not much stricken by outside things." This year, however, money to be raised from an auction of yellow hats (it's a George thing) will help the museum remain free to the families of fire fighters, police officers and EMTs...
...Dell, have such enormous scale and low cost structures that they can use aggressive pricing to bleed their rivals. Other relatively smaller players, like Toyota, Steel Dynamics and Southwest Airlines, are so efficient and innovative that they can steal customers away from lumbering giants. Certain companies, like online-auction dynamo eBay, offer a service that lots of struggling firms and consumers are eager to use in hard times...