Word: bidness
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Among these segregated but proud institutions was the elementary school where generations received the sort of rigorous education that inner-city blacks today can hardly imagine. Another was the separate-but-more-than-equal "colored picnic," where blacks who worked at the paper mill gathered to dance, play bid whist and gorge themselves on soul food. Small wonder, as Gates writes, that for many of his parents' generation, "integration was experienced as a loss . . . Who in his right mind would want to go to the mill picnic with the white folks when it meant shutting the colored one down...
...current bid for re-authorization contains some potential amendments which would strengthen and help regulate the Clean Water Act. Congress has an obligation to see these amendments through and create an act that truly lives up to its goals...
...Christie's began their big spring sales of newish art. In the palmy days of the market boom, before the great flopperoola of 1990, these used to be attended with bated breath as a spectacle of utterly crazed consumption. Watch the chap from the Mountain Turtle Gallery in Japan bid half a million dollars for a Brice Marden drawing! Don't miss the sight of S.I. Newhouse and a Scandinavian squillionaire driving a Jasper Johns to an unimaginable $17 million! See the De Kooning go for $20.7 million, and listen to the whole room applaud the bid as though they...
...Seagram, Edgar Sr. accommodated changing consumer tastes in part by lightening blends of a leading whiskey brand, introducing bottled cocktails and importing wines and liqueurs. He also diversified into office buildings, shopping malls and other businesses. In 1981 Seagram bid for control of Conoco, a giant oil and gas producer. It lost to Du Pont Co. but came out owning 24.3% of Du Pont stock, today worth around $9 billion. Seagram's management of that investment just might indicate what role it could play in Time Warner. The company has made no effort to take over Du Pont...
Jones says Clinton made his move on May 8, 1991, five months before he launched his presidential bid. On that day they were both at Little Rock's Excelsior Hotel for an annual gathering of business executives and government officials. Jones, who was then a 24-year-old clerk (salary: $10,270) for the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, a state agency, was working at a table in the hotel lobby, handing out name tags. Her account of the episode proceeds like this...