Word: auction
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...Adams House auction, which featured live bidding and musical performances by students, is an annual fundraiser for HoCo that was first held last year...
...charge alleges Walsh and Greenwood gave themselves $8.2 million in employee "advances" and another whopping $160 million for personal expenses. The complaint detailed funds' being used for buying rare books at auction, purchasing expensive horses, laying down $80,000 for a Steiff teddy bear and providing the ex-Mrs. Walsh with a $3 million residence...
...played 82 concerts in 58 cities as part of the HIStory tour. And, of course, there have been some embarrassing moments that infamously earned him the nickname Wacko Jacko. Stories of personal, health and financial problems have constantly cropped up, and he's currently trying to stop an auction of thousands of his personal possessions. (See pictures of the auction items for sale...
...want to stress that I will not pay for this bid.' CAI MINGCHAO, the winning bidder on the $36 million statues and a member of China's Lost Cultural Relics Foundation, saying he sabotaged the auction out of a sense of patriotic duty...
...Sale of the Century, as it was called, was held at Paris' Grand Palais, and it was not a sale at all but an auction of the art collected by the late iconic French designer Yves Saint Laurent and his business and former life partner, Pierre Bergé. It's understandable if you want to dismiss the hundreds of millions spent on someone else's stuff as just another example of clueless extravagance in an age of thrift. But for those with means, there was something else for sale, as valuable and just as likely to drive a person to irrational...