Word: gavels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into the convention with a lot of bill signings and directives--health care, welfare, tobacco regulations. The Republicans made a serious blunder in timing by sending bills to the White House just after their convention, allowing us to use them to slice away at their momentum. Before the opening gavel fell, we had regained 6 of the points we had lost...
...meeting, which lasted five-and-a-half hours, was filled with confusion, last-minute legislation, occasional lack of quorum and was punctuated by the continual sound of the gavel straining to keep order...
...then last week came Sotheby's yard sale of Jacqueline Kennedy's bric-a-brac. Jackie belonged to the founding myth of the '60s. Now the saint's relics of Camelot have turned to kitsch. The gavel-banging crassness of the sell-off may help bring Americans to that objectivity and even disillusionment necessary for what grief specialists refer to as "closure...
Once the bidding and gavel pounding began, an answer quickly emerged: very high, unbelievably high. Perhaps the best indication on the opening night of the stratospheres ahead came with the offering of a small stool with a torn, faded and stained satin cover. Sotheby's had estimated its market value at $100 to $150. After a furious competition between three bidders, two in the room and one on the phone, the homely little piece was sold...
...furniture, books, paintings, jewelry and other items auctioned last week by Sotheby's. The auction catalog listed them at $3.3 million to $4.6 million, representing Sotheby's best guess at the fair market value they would command if not imbued with the magic of Camelot. But when the final gavel came down Friday, the items had brought in $34.5 million...