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...Some items are near or slightly past their sell-by dates, but these days, expiration won't keep shoppers from a discount. Other stuff is just sitting on the shelves, and will go to waste if it's not auctioned off. The grocers get the proceeds from the sale, and the auctioneer takes a cut for commission. DeHart, for example, says he usually receives about 30% of an auction's proceeds. He started running grocery auctions three months ago. During one five-hour auction in March, bidders paid $10,000 for groceries that retailed for $26,000. (See pictures...
...middle 1000.”The Cardinals would hold on to cross the finish line with a time of 7:14.69, less than two seconds ahead of Radcliffe’s 7:16.22 finish. The Second Varsity Eight, which also competed in the race, did not manage to keep up the strenuous pace and finished in third place in 7:48.51.“I think we ran out of course,” Hollowell said. “If we had had another 100 meters, I think we would have gotten them.”Stanford dominated the novice...
...this month filed a civil lawsuit against a number of alleged loan-modification scam artists on behalf of scores if not hundreds of people, most of them facing foreclosure, who claim they paid upfront fees as high as $3,000 to have their mortgage terms improved so they could keep their homes. The suit alleges those services, which numerous non-profit organizations will do for free in tandem with lenders, were never delivered. (Read "Despite the Crash in Prices, Affordable Housing Still Lacking...
...targets of the suit, which seeks restitution for the plaintiffs, is Keep Your Property, Inc. The North Miami Beach firm allegedly bilked Floridians like Leslie Brown, a 73-year-old Jamaican immigrant and former dockworker. When faced with foreclosure on his Ft. Lauderdale home last fall, he says he paid $2,200 along with other large fees to Keep Your Property, which promised to get his sky-high mortgage interest rate lowered so he could continue making house payments. "I was so happy, I was sure they would take care of it," says Brown, a widower who has since lost...
Many described the vital nature of their responsibilities to the Harvard community and the financial necessity of keeping their jobs. Others cited the University’s sizable endowment as more than enough to keep on paying workers...