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...rival does; gas stations facing off across an intersection do it all the time. What's illegal is for two or more rivals to form a "cartel" by agreeing in advance to fix a price. One of the signs that this may be happening is a close, copycat pattern of changes--and this, the Justice Department claims, is what has been happening for years between Sotheby's and Christie's. In 1992 Sotheby's raised its buyer's fee from 10% to 15% on the first $50,000 (on higher amounts the buyer paid 10%). After just seven weeks, Christie...
...title character is murdered in the film's first scene, for she was, as flashbacks reveal, crazy mean. Almost everyone--including Jamie Lee Curtis, Neve Campbell and Casey Affleck--has a motive for offing her, but mostly what police chief Danny DeVito's investigation reveals is a city-wide pattern of irredeemable obtuseness...
...other students passing by the store yesterday disparaged what they see is a continuing pattern of the Square's gentrification...
...Walking out of Suffolk Downs, past rows of men poring over their Daily Racing Forms and Boston Heralds like Talmudic scholars looking for an esoteric pattern to the endless stream of numbers, past piles of losing tickets littering the puke-green floors, I feel somehow enlivened. I know that, in the best of all worlds, I'll make the 100-yard walk to the T poorer twice as often as richer. But I also know that tomorrow, I could make the super and catch my own Ticket Out of Here...
Throughout the season, when the opponent scored first, the Crimson has had difficulty surmounting the deficit. But despite the Tigers' best efforts to make that pattern materialize on Friday, Harvard confidently took the lead and maintained control...