Word: auction
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...Then, in a 1999 windfall for the University, the MTA, strapped to pay for the Big Dig, put 48 acres of Allston land beside HBS up at a blind auction, which Harvard snatched easily with a $151 million bid. The closest competitor was Genzyme, which offered 26 million for its property and an adjoining parcel...
...separate sets of tickets have been put up for sale on the Internet auction site e-Bay—one set currently at the price of $30/each and the other at the price of $41/each. Seniors at Harvard are allotted four free tickets each...
...everything that pays: car theft, gambling, prostitution, kidnap for ransom and even, astonishingly, petrol. The bulk of the bribes received by convicted customs chief Zhao came from smuggling gasoline. The racket worked like this: a tanker anchors in international waters and waits for motor launches to gather round. An auction follows, and the buyers smuggle the fuel to shore in barrels to sell to the nearest state-run station, no import duty paid. "The whole of southern China is running on smuggled gas," says Zheng. "And half the time, the government is controlling...
...make up the difference, Palm Beach County is going the way of the Ballot-Carrying Ryder Truck, which went for some $40,000 in a Yahoo online auction, and auctioning off the county's 5,000 Votomatics on eBay...
...exclude the media - another profession that requires little to zero credentials? The CBS Evening News is the lowest rated news broadcast and can't be doing too well financially. Why not auction off the anchor chair for one night a week to some multi-millionaire who wishes he were Dan Rather? In fact, it couldn't be more anxious-making for viewers than watching old Dan himself. Maybe that's how they should find Dan's successor - give it to the highest bidder; that might even make Viacom happy...