Word: biddinger
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Although the Clinton administration had considered staying away from Pakistan in light of the coup and unhappiness in Washington over Islamabad's efforts in the fight against terrorism, the President elected to go in the belief that a personal relationship with General Musharraf could be critical to resolving future crises...
Sotheby's, with Christie's not far behind, has led the field in this enterprise of simoniac strip-mining. No excess, no necrophiliac vulgarity, was too great--the $54 million Van Gogh Irises that didn't really sell, the degraded spectacle of Americans hyped into bidding tens of thousands of...
The feds' investigation did not, in fact, begin with the auctioneers. In the early 1990s, the Justice Department turned its scrutiny on private dealers in an effort to nail the ones who indulged in "ring" bidding--the technique of defrauding sellers by agreeing not to bid against one another in...
What would you pay to party with SHARON STONE at Spago? Or sit with BILL CLINTON as his party names a successor? The bidding begins at $100,000 for premier perks at August's Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, marketed as a mosh pit of star power--show biz and...
What would you pay to party with Sharon Stone at Spago? Or sit with Bill Clinton as his party names a successor? The bidding begins at $100,000 for premier perks at August's Democratic convention in Los Angeles, marketed as a mosh pit of star power - show biz and...