Word: fetching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with other allies, is how to figure contributions in kind. Riyadh has given the U.S. an open-ended commitment to supply all the fuel, water and electric needs of the U.S. forces operating there, but how should oil supplied to American troops be valued -- at the price it might fetch if sold on the world market or at Saudi production costs, which may be as low as 50 cents per bbl. of crude? By some estimates, Saudi crisis-related expenses in the first five months have totaled $22 billion, far more than the oil windfall. But these calculations include such...
Among the options Thatcher is considering are accepting invitations to lecture in the U.S., Europe and Japan; writing her memoirs; and founding her own political think tank. A Thatcher foundation would not lack funds, since her memoirs could fetch as much as $8 million, plus an additional $2 million for serialization rights. "I am sure it would command one of the highest prices ever paid for a political memoir," says Lynn Nesbit, a literary agent based in Manhattan who counts Jimmy Carter among her clients. Other publishing insiders even suggest that Thatcher's autobiography would fare better...
...skirmish in their mutual assured destruction pact, a frost-filled sideshow of haute-to- haute combat. Reagan complained that Gorbachev lectured her mercilessly on Marx and missiles, compared the White House to a museum, and was given to an imperious snapping of her fingers to summon the KGB to fetch a chair for her. After one White House dinner where Raisa used up all the available air in the room, Nancy snapped, "Who does that dame think...
Ironically any campaign to change American coffee habits would probably be overshadowed by last year's drop in coffee prices. Salvadoran coffee beans that sold for $135 per 100 lbs. last summer fetch just $70, a plunge that has slashed the country's export earnings by at least $175 million, or about 30%. Says Ernesto Altschul, a senior adviser to Cristiani: "I can't imagine they can hurt our coffee industry any worse...
...Christie's in New York City, artworks on the block sold for a total just under $100 million, or about 40% below expectations. An estimated one-third of the pieces went unsold. Among the jilted paintings: Willem de Kooning's Woman as Landscape, which was expected to fetch as much as $12 million...