Word: parred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friend, but women are also developing an insatiable fondness for emeralds. Demand for the soft, veined, green jewels has risen so appreciably that prices have more than doubled in the past five years; the finest quality stones now fetch as much as $3,000 per carat wholesale, on a par with diamonds. What buyers do not know is that they are almost certainly, if unwittingly, contributing to the prosperity of one of the world's most lucrative-and bloodiest-illegal businesses. Some 90% of all emeralds come from Colombia, where mining and sale of the gems are supposedly...
Winner's Likeness. The 40-year-old Segel, who has never collected coins, got the idea for producing medals from a news photo of crowds lined up at the U.S. Mint in Washington in 1964 to buy the last bags of silver dollars sold at par value. Then part owner of a firm that promoted calendars, cigarette lighters and other giveaway items imprinted with corporate trademarks, Segel saw in the picture "an interesting marketing opportunity" for a kind of non-coin of the realm. Advertising in collectors' magazines, he initially signed up 5,252 people to join...
...feel like an expert in something." Not necessarily in investing, however. Many coin dealers refuse to handle the relatively small number of Franklin medals that come on the market, claiming that they are unworthy of numismatic attention. Segel cheerfully replies that some of his issues have already attained above-par value and dismisses the dealers' grumping as plain envy. Sales of Franklin medals, he says, are already larger than the entire collectors' market for U.S. coins. He can also point to a growing number of other medal merchandisers that have entered the field, including Chicago's Lincoln...
...rest of your story, by the way, was. I would judge, well below par in terms of describing both what I said and the reactions of the audience-and "par" in this case describes a rather low standard...
Members of the Nonviolent Direct Action Group (NDAG) will hold a training workshop in St. Paul's Church near Boston Common at 5 p.m. tonight for those who want to participate in the civil disobedience. An NDAG spokesman explained yesterday that those par-ticipating in the civil disobedience will attempt to block the nine entrances to the Federal Building by sitting in front of them and going limp...