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According to a Jan. 16 notice to shareholders, Tenon Ltd., with four sawmills and a capacity of 850,000 cubic meters of timber per year, would sell a large fraction of its forestry assets, and looked to auction cutting rights to international investors...
Certain items, however, will go to the auction block on April 14 at Christie’s. The proceeds will go to a number of institutions, including...
Derivative? Maybe. But it makes sense. "Vintage roots us. It is an expression of our history that is wearable and gives us a sense of place and security in very insecure times," says Clair Watson, who heads the couture, textiles and fine-costume-jewelry department at the auction house Doyle New York. "Not only is fashion a business that breeds insecurity anyway, right now current fashion moves so fast that it is reassuring to wear something that has outlasted its period, that retains its allure beyond the dictates of now." And, come to think...
...Hold the front page! A U.S. judge torpedoed Conrad Black's plans to sell his controlling stake in Chicago-based newspaper publishers Hollinger International to British investors. Siding with Hollinger's board - which claimed the $466 million deal undervalued the firm - the ruling could clear the way for an auction of Hollinger's titles...
...road-construction crew so that he can go home to his wife and son in white-collar dignity. Connelly plays a recovering alcoholic struggling with depression who makes the critical error of failing to pay her property taxes. He uses his savings to buy her California home at auction - a step toward rebuilding his family's prosperity. She believes the house is still rightfully hers and battles back - with deadly consequences. Though Kingsley and Shohreh Aghdashloo, who plays his wife, Nadi, have both won acclaim and Oscar nods for their performances, some critics panned the film's tragic Shakespearean ending...