Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HOWARD MILSTEIN just wants a place at the table. But the guys who own the furniture keep moving it. Milstein, a billionaire real estate developer, and his partners have offered $800 million to buy the National Football League's Washington Redskins franchise. The bid was not only $200 million better than anyone else's but would be the largest price ever for a North American sports team. Still, the NFL owners don't seem to want Milstein's money. Although Milstein says he has restructured the financing to meet league guidelines, sources say the offer is too highly leveraged...
...Fashionably speaking, Liz Taylor's worth dropped roughly 85% in 17 years: her 1969 dress (1) fetched the evening's highest bid, $167,500, while her 1986 dress sold...
...current contract, negotiated by the Cambridge Patrol Officers' Association, allows officers to "bid" for certain neighborhoods, choosing their assignments on the basis of seniority and experience. Since officers can switch neighborhoods several times a year, most do not establish relationships with the community members...
Although officers get to "bid" on neighborhoodsthey want, they can switch at any time...
...mental disorder.] Before murdering his parents, Sellers at the age of 16 killed Robert Bowers, a convenience-store clerk who wouldn't sell him beer. Sellers later murdered his own mother Vonda Bellofatto and his stepfather Paul Lee Bellofatto in their sleep. It was not until after Sellers' final bid for appeal was turned down by the state of Oklahoma and his capital-punishment sentence became inevitable that his legal team propagated claims that Sellers suffered from multiple-personality disorder. Your readers should know that these claims were never proved in either of Sellers' criminal trials. Why didn...