Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sale smashed the record set just eight months ago by another Van Gogh, Sunflowers, which was bought by a Japanese insurance company for the seemingly untoppable sum of $39.9 million. Four of the ten highest prices ever paid at art auctions have been fetched by Van Gogh's works during the past two years.The Dutch artist has long been revered for his mesmerizingly bright colors and thick, curvy, even violent brushstrokes, but some experts think the sudden Van Gogh craze defies explanation...
...around the rule, officials in Gephardt's Iowa organization secretly enlisted a small-town newspaper publisher to serve as a front man and paid local residents $20 an hour in cash to distribute and collect the ballots. Keith Dinsmore, Gephardt's Iowa communications director, cut the deal with Ken Robinson, publisher of the tiny (circ. 1,500) Bayard News. At a late-afternoon dress rehearsal at the Starlite Village hotel, adjacent to the auditorium, Robinson sat quietly while Dinsmore instructed Drake University students and a handful of other paid recruits on how to poll the 8,000 Democrats expected...
Elsewhere, a few eccentric real estate gamblers started buying old buildings in godforsaken downtowns. Frank Akers paid $4,200 in 1969 for his first two buildings in Portland, Me. The area, Akers says, "was loaded with winos and pimps and seedy waterfront characters. Everybody said I was crazy." Today, of course, downtown Portland is loaded with architects and lawyers and high- butterfat ice-cream stores...
...industry racks up impressive returns. Last year 33.3 billion aluminum beverage cans were recovered. One giant can producer, Reynolds Metals, paid nearly $93 million to recyclers, while taking in some 305 million lbs. of aluminum, enough to make nearly 8 billion cans...
...boot." Socializing for young married officers and their wives was both formal and innocent -- tuxedos or dress blues for the men, 15 cents movies and milk shakes afterward at the PX. "Your sole purpose in life was to develop your equestrian skills," Schlanser recalls. "Yeah, they paid us to ride and stay in shape," says Colonel James Spurrier, president of the U.S. Horse Cavalry Association. He sounds wistful. A first lieutenant's pay was $125 a month, good money in those days. A pair of English boots cost $110, Polk remembers, but the shop "would wait six months before sending...