Word: delray
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...marketplace. Two-thirds of all Internet fraud complaints last year were directed at auction sites, according to the National Consumers' League. And antique dealers, who quickly adapted to e-auctions, find themselves dealing with amateurs who wouldn't know Caravaggio from formaggio. Peter Woolman, a British antiques dealer in Delray Beach, Fla., is one such frustrated buyer. "It's full of fakes," he complains. He recently flew to Texas to pick up a pair of bronze and ivory statues for which he bid $26,000, only to discover at a glance that they were knockoffs. "The sellers said they didn...
...Dunlap's initial slashing and burning (he cut half the company's 12,000 jobs) were rewarded with a company-wide stock-option plan that for a painfully brief period was gratifying but now represents lost dreams. Said an employee on lunch break last week at Sunbeam headquarters in Delray Beach, Fla.: "I popped open a bottle of champagne when I heard the news [about Chainsaw...
...probably looked like a neatly packaged, over-the-counter cure for a financial headache. In need of cash for new public health campaigns on smoking and violence, the American Medical Association decided to turn to the Sunbeam Corp. While best known for its food mixers, blenders and toasters, the Delray Beach, Fla., company also makes medical equipment--thermometers, heating pads and blood-pressure monitors. Under an arrangement that could conceivably net the association millions of dollars a year in royalties, last week it gave Sunbeam exclusive rights to fix the A.M.A. seal on some of the firm's health-care...
DIED. GEORGE OSLIN, 97, inventor in 1933 of the singing telegram; in Delray Beach, Florida. As the public relations director for Western Union, Oslin sent the first singing telegram to crooner Rudy Vallee on the singer's birthday. Today Western Union delivers singing telegrams by telephone--sung only to the tune of Happy Birthday...
BORN: May 27, 1955, Fort Lauderdale EDUCATION: Atlantic High School, diploma, 1974 FAMILY: Wife, Darlene Nimey; two children RELIGION: Orthodox Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Farmer; cattle rancher; construction surveyor POLITICAL CAREER: Candidate for Boynton Beach mayor, 1992 ADDRESS: 2710 North Seacrest Boulevard, Delray Beach...