Word: bidder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because the CUE Guide no longer gives grading statistics and the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility does not have the resources to prevent Harvard from selling its corporate soul to the highest bidder...
...customary skies to talk about my book. But practicing on-the-air civility, I offered a few economic answers no more radical than Adam Smith's. We have a reasonably free society. People, including people who play first base, are privileged to offer their skills to the highest bidder. Personally, I prefer this to either monopoly sport or socialized sport. A lot I knew, said a radio listener in Dallas. The goddam greedy athletes were ruining the game...
...entry a try. Seven years, a Pulitzer Prize and 400 newspaper subscribers later, Doonesbury had become one of the industry's-and the Bulletin's-hottest features. Last month Universal abruptly abandoned its old customer and, after an acrimonious court battle, gave Doonesbury to a higher bidder; archrival Philadelphia Inquirer...
...quick question: "How was she bred, ma'am?" The equally quick answer: "By Secretariat out of Crimson Saint by Crimson Satan, seven wins in eleven starts for over $90,000." That yearling was gaveled off at Keeneland a few days later for $275,000; another, by Bold Bidder, went for $400,000, just $5,000 shy of the record for a filly...
Restrictive labor rules could not balance relative team strengths because players still ended up working for the club for whom they were most valuable, with or without the reserve clause. Although an athlete could not offer his services to the highest bidder, one team would bargain with another to purchase a player's contract. Today negotiations take place directly with the ballplayer in question, allowing him to accrue the fruits of his labor rather than the employer...