Word: auctions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...IPOs from web sites such as TheStreet.com and iVillage that tripled or quadrupled on their first day of trading. But when the highbrow site Salon when public yesterday the image was a flat flounder. Key was Salon's pioneering participation in a Net experiment that uses a Dutch auction to set the IPO price before trading. The Dutch format helped kill any big first-day run-up but it also cut out the Wall Street middlemen. Early shareholders may have missed out on a Net IPO bonanza, but Salon is laughing all the way to the bank...
...Kesselring is not at liberty to reveal the dungeon from which he procured the Mytheral breastplate. And the identity of the monsters he and his party spent 11 hours slaying in order to win the item is likewise proprietary. But he will talk about the auction that his character, a gnome named Razor, held that night in Mithaniel Marr. Roughly 200 players showed up, and the armor sold for 4,000 platinum pieces. But then, turning a socially responsible profit is Razor's forte. "It's how I add value to the economy," he says, "and to the game itself...
...would beg to differ, but there's no doubting the depths of the Everquesters' passions; already tales are circulating of companies' banning the game from their in-house machines and college girlfriends stealing the discs from their boyfriends' PCs. Last week eBay had 140 virtual Everquest items up for auction: weapons, spells, even the game's currency trading for U.S. dollars--what one might call a cyber exchange rate...
This is an anthology film, tracing the history of the eponymous instrument from its creation in the 17th century to its predictable fate as--what else?--the centerpiece of frantic bidding in an auction in our own time. The violin is, at various points, owned by a monastery, a child prodigy and a victim of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. These stories, alas, are utterly predictable. Still, Samuel L. Jackson breaks through the crust of cliches as an expert called in to verify the instrument's provenance, and violinist Joshua Bell plays and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts John Corigliano's score...
...Bush's most memorable campaign tactics was to sit on a throne made of beer cans and one can of Ginger Ale (in recognition of students who do not drink alcohol). After the election (Bush finished third out of seven candidates), the throne was sold at a Cabot House auction and has since been recycled...