Word: conteste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night of the auction, an agent for Bond in New York City placed his bids by telephone. Irises, according to observers, quite quickly went up to $40 million. After a slight lull, the contest resumed between two telephones, whose disembodied bids were relayed to auctioneer John Marion. Moments later, Irises was hammered down to an anonymous bidder at $49 million -- $53.9 million counting the 10% buyer's commission. The name of the underbidder on the other phone has never been divulged. A year went by before it was announced that Bond was the new owner of Irises...
Last night, the Harvard women's hockey team defeated the Boston College club team, 8-0, in a contest that, in Co-Captain Char Joslin's words, went from "terrible to just...
...trade publication Automotive News, "They don't know there is a war on. They don't have the foggiest idea. Am I saying the worst is yet to come? I don't think we've bottomed out yet. That is what I am saying." No one in Detroit would contest his argument. The outcome is in the hands of U.S. car buyers, who have far more choices than ever before and a lot of anxious auto executives hanging on their decisions...
...presidential contest over, Kitty's interest in state affairs dwindled. Her stage by now was bigger. A New York publisher paid her a large advance to write a book about the campaign, another undertaking that troubled her wary husband. Soon she was questioning colleagues about the propriety of telling certain sensitive anecdotes. The demands of the book only added to Kitty's numerous pressures. Finally, she lost control...
Before last week's unexpectedly close Virginia contest, Pollster Harrison Hickman got revealing results by making an offbeat correlation. When white voters were questioned by white pollsters, Hickman found, they favored Republican Marshall Coleman by 16 points. But when whites were telephoned by interviewers with recognizably black intonation, they leaned to Douglas Wilder by 10 points...