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...stakes loom high. Ostensibly, two big art dealers bid against each other until the hammer falls. In all probability, each represents a major museum or collector who has secretly commissioned the dealer to bid for them. The theory is that if the true bidders were known the price would skyrocket. When the game is played out, the art world is left to guess who actually bought the piece...
...Over 9000 Harvard students, professors, and administrators live off-campus in Cambridge. They can afford higher rents which forces poor and working-class families to leave old neighborhoods as rents skyrocket. Universities like Harvard and M?LT. tend to attract research and technical firms to Cambridge, further altering neighborhoods and bringing more middle income people to the city to live. To alleviate the housing shortage, the high rents, the break-up of neighborhoods, Harvard must do its part...
When the tally of arrests began to skyrocket, it became clear that the government was using its power to move against political opponents who had little if anything to do with the activities of the underground group. Aside from the few FLQ spokesmen they could lay their hands on (Lemieux and Vallieres were among the first to be arrested), the police and the military were singularly unsuccessful in cracking the FLQ's tight security and uncovering is members. If there were any truth or logic to what the Trudeau government was doing, it would have outlawed the FLQ only...
...such accurate demonstration identification far outweight the benefits it would have to Bowie and others who are gung-ho on prosecuting. The University would more and more take on the atmosphere of a police state with increasing polarization between the Administration and students. The number of CRR hearings would skyrocket as students could justifiably demonstrate that the Administration was engendering a fascist community...
Although they are the biggest casinos on earth, the bourses often deal harshly with men whose commercial success or personal fame has been, sudden, surprising or adventurous. The long bear market has proved especially distressing for dozens of onetime skyrocket securities, and the men who ignited them. Last week three more celebrated high flyers were in varying degrees of trouble...