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...cool men (James Garner and Lou Gossett) roam the pre-Civil War West performing an efficient little Skin Game. Taking advantage of the heavy slave traffic, Garner auctions Gossett off to the highest bidder. Gossett rolls his eyes, shuffles along behind his new master, escapes at his first chance and meets Garner outside of town, where they split the profits and have a good laugh. It all works splendidly until they run afoul of a shrewd little swindler (Susan Clark) and an angry gentleman, name of John Brown. Part adventure, part easygoing comedy, Skin Game is an amiable pleasure about...
Last January, Murdoch gained control of the 6,130,000-circulation News of the World, a lurid Sunday paper, by outmaneuvering a bigger bidder, Czech-born Robert Maxwell. The deal prompted Maxwell to remark of Murdoch: "He has caught a big fish with a very small hook." Under Murdoch's direction the fish has grown even bigger, with circulation rising despite a price increase to 80 a copy. Last October, Murdoch acquired the dull but earnest daily Sun (circ.: 950,000) for a down-payment of $120,000-considerably less than he paid for his house on London...
...fortunes over the past several decades has been Government privileges." For example, the issuance of radio-TV licenses is "an enormous giveaway of valuable capital sums to individuals who are not low-income people." Friedman also holds that the Federal Communications Commission should auction TV channels to the highest bidder and thereafter stay out of the picture...
...group had his pick of jobs, but many turned down offers from dozens of big firms in order to join a small company. The pay might be somewhat more modest there, but the responsibility is larger and the promotions potentially faster. Nobody in the group accepted the highest bidder, and few were interested in general training programs that are easy to get lost in. These students will not have to work their way painfully up through the ranks; they begin fairly close to the top. Many of today's business students have been in the armed forces, have started...
...latest feud began when Greece's ruling generals early last year offered another refinery concession to whichever bidder proposed to finance and build the most additional industry to go with it. At first Onassis beat out Niarchos with a proposal for a $400 million complex containing the refinery as well as an alumina works, a thermoelectric plant, shipyards and many projects to attract tourists. Altogether, that represented the largest industrial investment in Greek history...