Word: fetch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...caravan rolls. A pair of fuel trucks, a Ryder rent-a- truck with a family in the cab and its Pontiac dragging behind, a double freight truck, half a peripatetic house marked WIDE LOAD (for shallow living) pass and pass again in symbiotic progression. They finally fetch up -- without a sign of recognition from the drivers who have traveled for hours more or less together -- in the lee of an aptly named roadside restaurant called Huddle. "Lady," snarls the gas-station owner, "don't you ever clean your headlights with a squeegee. Stuff gets in it, and the next...
...have shallow roots. Conservationists are now lobbying for stricter state and federal laws to stop poachers, who are lured by substantial profits. Saguaros, which can take more than 100 years to grow to 6 ft., routinely sell for $10 per ft. in height plus $50 an arm -- and can fetch ten times that amount in Europe and Japan. For instance, a rare 19-ft. crested saguaro lifted from Quartzsite, Ariz., turned up in a Las Vegas nursery with a $15,000 price...
Last year, for example, WSGP took over Honolulu Federal in return for $17 million in new capital and $40 million in bonds. The group slashed the marketing budget and cut back operating hours; they also discounted $100 million in bad assets. Now the thrift could fetch as much as $150 million if sold...
...capital offense. Then the stones are usually sold to middlemen at the river's edge or in nearby towns and eventually wind up in the hands of smugglers. Every guaquero's dream is to find a large "drop of oil" stone -- one of great purity that could fetch thousands of dollars. Most of the treasure hunters, however, spend their days in extreme poverty, squandering what little they earn on liquor...
...Philippines. The film, sent to a friend to be developed, was lost, except for ten photos that appeared in Conover's 1981 book Finding Marilyn. Conover died last year, and the negatives of the original pictures from his book, along with 15 unpublished transparencies, are expected to fetch up to $32,000 when they are auctioned at Christie's in London on Aug. 28. Monroe's kind of vibrancy still astonishes...