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...price of protectionism went up in Washington last week. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority threw out all bids for construction of an extension to the city subway system after the low bidder turned out to be a 70%-30% joint venture of Kiewit Construction of Omaha and Kajima Engineering & Construction of Japan. The Metro acted to conform with the Murkowski-Brooks amendment, which was passed by Congress last December and bans Japanese firms from federally funded public works projects. The provision was designed to force the Japanese to open their domestic construction market to Americans...
Sheraton General Manager James Collins said that last November the hotel solicited bids from construction companies for a job remodeling its fifth and sixth floors. He said the lowest bidder was Felsway, Inc. of Medford, which outbid the Carpenter's Union...
...price be put on the secrets of the universe? Sure, if the setting is Sotheby's Manhattan auction block. Last week a handwritten manuscript in which Albert Einstein laid out his "special" theory of relativity was sold to an unidentified bidder for $1.16 million -- a record for a manuscript at a U.S. auction...
When the gavel came down and the auctioneer said "Sold," the standing-room- only crowd at Sotheby's in New York City gasped, and then broke into applause. Vincent van Gogh's 1889 masterpiece Irises had just been bought by an unnamed foreign bidder for $53.9 million, the highest price paid for an artwork at auction...
...because one of its subsidiaries was caught making illegal sales of high-tech equipment to the Soviet Union, Japan's Toshiba last week suffered the first major blow to its bottom line. The Pentagon spurned Toshiba and awarded a $104 million contract for 90,000 laptop computers to rival bidder Zenith Electronics. The Glenview, Ill., company, which is already a large Government supplier, might have won the contract anyway, but Toshiba's new notoriety nullified whatever chance the Japanese company...