Word: rugs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tend the fire in the second-floor drawing room of her Manhattan town house, for which she says (later, when she is speaking) she was offered $2 million. I look around at her watercolors, the antique duck decoy, some African artifacts, and memorize the pattern in the Oriental rug while she slowly removes the screen from the fireplace, chucks in a couple of corn husks, stokes the embers a bit here and there, and shoves the wood around...
Within two weeks, Lee, a Hong Kong native who is off to Stanford Medical School next fall, managed successfully to merchandise a car, rug, Commencement tickets and other items. She says she cleared close...
...selling]," says Jason C. Mitchell '92, a chemistry concentrator in Quincy House. After a two-week sale, the novice entrepreneur amassed a $450 profit by hawking furniture, a weight set, a rug and bookshelves...
...Kimball had some trouble throwing' off the rug, which had a raised rubber," Haskell said. "As for BU, good pitching always beats good hitting and that's basically the ballgame...
...deals on the planet these days can be found in the former Soviet Union. The choices are certainly limited, but Americans in Moscow with access to black-market rubles can, for example, enjoy a reasonable meal for as little as $3 or take home a room-size, handmade wool rug for less than $100. But the plunging value of the ruble that makes such deals available to foreigners has been a nightmare for the locals. Since Russian President Boris Yeltsin lifted price controls in January, a move that pushed the inflation rate to 200% that month, Muscovites say their money...