Word: bidder
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...also those that will be saved at Westinghouse Electric in New York, where motors and other assemblies will be manufactured. It is somewhat disheartening to those of us who worked so hard to bring Bombardier to the U.S. to have our local plant labeled in effect a "foreign bidder...
...look now, but American foreign policy has just been sold to the highest bidder. And the winner is Saudi Arabia, with two former executives of the Bechtel Group, Caspar Weinberger and George Shultz, in Reagan's Cabinet...
Beyond the emotional trauma of selling beloved land, farmers are finding buyers scarce and the returns slim. "Some land goes up for sale and doesn't even bring out a bidder, since nobody has much money," says the Illinois Farm Bureau's Dale Butz, brother of former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. After a long, spectacular climb, the value of crop land is falling. Average Indiana farm land sold a year ago for $ 1,200 an acre. Last month it was fetching only $700. Predicts Robert Maurer, a banker in Fairbury...
...Thorn Birds, sold for $1.9 million. But An Indecent Obsession (1981) managed much less. Watergate Conspirator John Ehrlichman and bestselling Feminist Author Betty Friedan recently shared the same fate: their books were withdrawn from paperback auction because the five-figure bids were insultingly low. There was only one bidder for Gael Greene's Doctor Love; and although Diana Trilling's Mrs. Harris went for $125,000, her publisher, William Jovanovich, says, "Two years ago, it would have brought over...
Warner Amex and Home Box Office, a subsidiary of Time Inc., plunked down $ 13.7 million and $ 12.5 million respectively for two of the transponders. The high bidder, however, was a new outfit called Transponder Leasing Corp., which paid $14.4 million, and will presumably now turn around and lease out its space to other companies. Also high in the reckoning was Billy H. Batts, 46, a lay minister based in Chattanooga, Tenn., who has plans to establish a Protestant Evangelical and family-entertainment network. That must be a record price for a pulpit...