Word: carat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young, it was said that a woman was entitled to change her mind. And so last week Taylor, 51, announced her engagement to wealthy Mexican Lawyer Victor Gonzalez Luna, 56. He will be husband No. 8. To mark the occasion, Gonzalez Luna presented his intended with a 16½-carat sapphire surrounded by tiny diamonds. So forget Liz and Dick; until further notice, make...
...urbane 60-year-old, and his astute wife Ellen reach the Toulouse-Carcassonne canal, Kate has just surfaced, as dead as Ophelia, in a lock. In a classic, Christie-precise scenario, Cooley discovers that the murders almost certainly involve Kate's obsessive desire to own a priceless 35-carat ruby, a relic of the Crusades, which was stolen and has been missing for several years...
...rare pink diamond set for auction last week in Sotheby's New York City gallery was, like the venerable institution, one of a kind. Appraisers at the 239-year-old auction house had estimated the value of the nearly flawless 9.58-carat gem at more than half a million dollars. But the day before the diamond was due to be auctioned, Sotheby's officials had a problem: the stone was missing...
...word: 'Firelight' (a code word? or a dying man's resurrection of a beloved childhood memory?) and fell to the ground, sprawled out like an epileptic lobster, clutching in his fist loosened by the merciful kiss of death fire of another sort: a 20-carat, flawless blue diamond...
Prices of other inflation hedges were also trimmed. A flawless one-carat diamond fell from $26,500 to $19,500. Coins, stamps and Chinese ceramics declined in value. Interestingly, precious metals did not. By the end of the year, gold was selling for $448 per oz., up from $400, and silver had risen from $8.25 to $10.90. One explanation: fears among some investors that efforts to lift the world economy out of recession will set off a round of hyperinflation...