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...sell the piece to, so I offered it to them,” said Wronoski, referring to the recent transaction. The bookstore features various valuable first edition books, as well as a more affordable selection of used books. Booksellers don’t always sell to the highest bidder, but it’s worth a shot: if you’re a Houghton habitué, make sure you bring along your Black Card...
...national media gets no pardon either. "Reporters facilitate the greedy and grubby process whereby too many elections go to the highest bidder and his sharpie hirelings," he writes. He remains sore about the degree to which a candidate's credibility is judged by his or her bank account and notes that during the debates, he was often asked about religion while the other candidates dealt with questions of government policy. Why, he asks, was a "floating cross" in the window of one of his ads such a media controversy when reporters gave a pass to a Barack Obama direct-mail...
...Whores are new. But it's rare to see them expressed with such frank simplicity. Pisani is never one to mince words. "In the AIDS business we're all whores," she says. Given how aid groups seek out donors' money, "We're all selling ourselves to the highest bidder." As with the prostitutes, their actions follow a certain logic - and it could be deadly...
...successful than other large universities in preserving a common theme in its built environment. At a time when “naming opportunities” are regularly given to wealthy donors and cities change the names of their sports arenas almost every year to afford publicity to the highest bidder, it is comforting to know that students and alumni can still have common reference points in comparing the recollections of the past with student life today...
What's more, trading pollution allowances could raise hundreds of billions of dollars. Clinton and Obama want all the allowances auctioned to the highest bidder, a position McCain would not accept. The fossil-fuel industries want them given away. Lieberman-Warner uses a mix of giveaway and auction, a seemingly fair approach but one that has split enviros--some of whom see the bill as weak. Industry is ambivalent too. The National Association of Manufacturers is dug in against the bill. A large and growing number of corporations know that a cap is inevitable, though few have come...