Word: fetch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joined the growing number of Texas ranchers who are devoting some of their pastures to exotic wildlife. Now Indian axis deer, African eland, wildebeests, Grevy's zebras and sable antelope roam Bentsen's range. To help support his wildlife habit, Bentsen sells surplus animals. His ostrich chicks fetch $7,500 a pair. Several times a year he lets hunters take trophies from the surplus animals on the ranch. Bentsen is a lifelong hunter and also a dedicated conservationist...
Bass's really big payoff will come if he decides to sell the thrift. One source close to the deal says that a profitable American Savings might fetch Bass a tidy $1 billion or more. Bass could conceivably still lose money on the deal if his thrift were to suffer losses, but that is almost an impossibility because it has been cleansed of its failing assets. Since FSLIC shoulders almost all the risk, the better Bass does, the less the deal will cost the Government. "We hope he makes a lot of money," says Bank Board member Roger Martin...
...ceilings in Houston's 13-story BancTexas building, worried tenants started packing up and leaving. Now, little more than a year later, the building is empty and its owners are trying to sell it for $6.5 million, an asking price 30% to 50% less than the building might fetch if it were asbestos-free. In Manhattan the former J.C. Penney headquarters, a 45-story tower that was sold last May to a real estate partnership for $352 million, stands vacant while workers remove asbestos from the building. Estimated cost: $6 million...
...resale of weapons. However, that has not stanched a flood of firepower that travels from Southern states, where guns are quickly and easily bought, to Northern ones, where sales are more tightly regulated. Firearms bought in gun shops in Florida, Texas and Virginia -- the three largest supply states -- fetch top dollar when sold on the black market to drug dealers, street gangs and assorted thugs in Washington and New York City...
...latest skirmish in a war that has pitted a growing army of rhino and elephant poachers against an outgunned force of rangers and police. The lure for poachers is great: prized in Asia as an aphrodisiac and in Yemen for making dagger handles, a single rhino horn can fetch as much...