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...Japanese caused unusual resentment and distress to some Americans, especially after they have watched the Japanese buy heavily into Hollywood and Rockefeller Center. The distress was illogical sometimes: Arakawa has lived in the Seattle area for 15 years and has promised to keep the team there, while the competing bidder, a group of Americans, plans to move it to Florida...
President Derek C. Bok's car was sold to the second highest bidder for $4371 in the Phillips Brooks House Association's (PBHA) silent auction on January 6, after the highest bidder declined...
...Earl will use the money to cover debts, including an $86,000 tax bill, that his brother left after he died in jail in 1967 while awaiting a retrial. Like so much else in the story of the Kennedy assassination, the identity of the purchaser remains a mystery. The bidder, Frank Roman, says he bought the pistol on behalf of an anonymous gun collector...
...free-agent era, when players can sign with the highest bidder, owners find it tough to produce a consistent winner. Yes, the Oakland A's reached the Series the past three years. But a $37 million payroll this season couldn't keep the dynasty from turning nasty. The A's limped and sulked, finishing 11 games behind the Twins...
...Canadian couples have successfully adopted, may be a good prospect. Bureaucratic hurdles are harder to jump in Colombia and Peru, but Bolivia and Ecuador seem to be opening up. Postrevolutionary Romania stopped all foreign adoption in July after some money-crazed citizens began offering their children to the highest bidder; Bucharest will allow only registered orphans to leave starting in January at the earliest. There are children available in Poland and the Soviet Union, though Moscow for the moment allows only "special needs" children -- those who are older or handicapped -- to go abroad...