Word: fetched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since then, and Secretariat started out with about 25,000 contemporaries, all potential competitors. Further, the three major races, bunched within five weeks, present different problems in terms of length and race track surfaces. Yet, the chalk players have such confidence in Secretariat that a $2 bet will likely fetch no more than $2.10 or $2.20 if he wins at Belmont...
...which were opened last week. No foreign company made a bid, because the British government would not have let a foreign purchaser use the Rolls-Royce name. Ten British bids were received, but all were below the $120 million or so that London financiers once estimated Rolls-Royce might fetch. Nicholson and his bank rejected the bids and announced that this week they would offer Rolls-Royce's stock to the public at a total price of around $96 million...
...made into a thin veneer to cover less expensive woods. But the supply is short. Every year woodsmen in the U.S. cut about 11 million more board feet than mature in state and commercial nurseries. As a result, logs from a large, top-quality black walnut tree can fetch as much as $15,000 nowadays-obviously well worth a midnight foray by tree rustlers...
...things a guy can do from which he can get a feeling of effectiveness if he does it well." USAF Major Fred Thompson, once a P.O.W. in Viet Nam, recalls devoting hours to an effort to train the ants in his cell to fetch crumbs. When that palled, he began building a dream cottage in his head, board by board, brick by brick...
Jamaica, like most of the Caribbean islands, is beset by an unholy trinity of poverty, malnutrition and unemployment. The islands' economies are often tied to single crops-sugar and bananas -that fetch low prices on world markets. They cannot mechanize agriculture to cut costs and raise incomes because that would only aggravate unemployment, which runs as high as 25% in Jamaica. The result is low productivity and per capita incomes that range from about $65 a year in Haiti to $555 in Jamaica, one of the more prosperous of the Caribbean islands...