Word: chain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gold chain fetched $319,000. A two-handled gold cup went for $275,000. The only treasure not up for auction at what Christie's New York called the most spectacular shipwreck sale in history was the $1 million worth of salvaged gold draped around Mel Fisher's well-tanned neck. He is the 65-year- old treasure hunter whose 20-year search for sunken bullion finally paid off three years ago, when he discovered the main cargo of the Nuestra Seora de Atocha, a booty-laden Spanish galleon that foundered in stormy seas off Florida's Key West...
...created some 35 different investment schemes, including one drawn up on a cocktail napkin. Last November six shareholders filed suit in a Florida court, charging they did not receive their fair share of the treasure. Still, the plaintiffs could take some consolation from the Christie's sale. A gold chain that belonged to one of them went...
...four years as a lobbyist at Timmons & Co., a Washington consulting firm. He usually arrives for work at 7:15 in the morning and tries to return to his suburban Maryland home by 8 in the evening to tuck in his two young children. When he isn't chain-smoking Marlboros, he is nibbling on pretzels from a huge jar on his desk. More than any other White House staffer since Michael Deaver, Duberstein has taken pains to develop a good relationship with Nancy Reagan. He and the First Lady talk at least twice a day. Duberstein's energy...
...took Martin just two batters to leave the dugout. He went to the mound to counsel pitcher Charles Hudson in the top of the first inning. In the bottom of the first. Martin politely asked home plate umpire Mark Johnson to check a gold chain worn by Boston pitcher Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd...
...sells for $295 (vs. $489 in Tokyo), nearly 50% of the customers are Japanese, and the percentage climbs to 65% at the company's Rodeo Drive outlet in Beverly Hills. Europeans, who make up one-third of the clientele at Stuart Limited, an upscale six-store men's clothing chain in the Miami area, snap up $75 silk shirts and $475 leather jackets so quickly that Owner Stuart Graver can barely keep the apparel in stock. Says Graver: "They just gobble those up each time we get an order." As creative director for a Paris advertising agency, Rene Fatton...