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Baseball salaries have soared in recent years because of free agency, which permits players to work for the highest bidder. The N.F.L. introduced free agency this year. Some results...
...June 17, into the path of the Ann Brita. A few minutes and a well-placed harpoon later, the minke's destiny abruptly changed course. Instead of reaching the Arctic, she ended up on an auction block in the Norwegian port of Svolvaer, sold to the highest bidder for $2.50 a lb. This minke was the first of 160 hauled in by Norway this season for commercial sale. Each of these catches violated the worldwide ban on for-profit hunting established by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1986. (More than 130 others were hunted legally for scientific purposes, although...
...everything over $5,000," he says. "The low bidder always gets it, except in some extenuating circumstances--if the low bidder did a poor job last time, for example...
...Freshman year, I cut my hair for a formal," he says. "After that, however, I went about two and a half years without cutting my hair. In the end, I auctioned it off at the Winthrop auction and the highest bidder got to shave my head. We raised $500 for charity...
...Baltimore, Maryland, orphanage. The owners wailed that the sky was falling back in 1976, when the Major League Players Association -- then and now the most powerful union in sports -- first won the right for its members to become free agents and sell their services to the highest bidder after six years in the majors. But instead of all the stars flocking to New York City and Los Angeles, the law of unintended consequences prevailed: no World Champion has repeated since the 1977-78 Yankees...