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...issue is Madrid's claim that the Marquesa left Spain in 1983 in violation of export laws. In that year the painting was sold to British Art Collector Lord Wimborne by a Mallorca businessman for an undisclosed sum. Spain says the export documents that accompanied the artwork were spurious, a charge that both Wimborne and Christie's deny. A London art dealer involved in the sale to Wimborne apparently was told that the necessary export permit was expedited by a Spanish official who owed the Marquesa's former owner a "favor." Christie's insists that the auction will take place...
...grades. Fifty years later, he had a doctorate in economics from Ohio State University under his belt and was a director of the United Negro College Fund. Riding high in academic circles as the man who had built the endowment of South Carolina's Benedict College from an inconsequential sum to $20 million, Ponder came to tackle Fisk. He found a faculty that deserved medals for even bothering to stick around. They had gone years without salary increases, after voluntarily accepting cuts...
...patients need the right to sue because medical societies rarely drive out low-quality practitioners. If doctors cry that between 1980 and 1984 the average malpractice award jumped 63%, to $660,123, lawyers may retort that half of all awards made in that period were below an unchanging median sum of $200,000. The average annual charge for malpractice insurance coverage may have increased 79% between 1976 and 1984, but doctors' total income went up 89% at the same time...
With delicate diplomacy, Putnam may be able to get out of this mess unscathed. But with "a significant sum" riding on the outcome of Sunday's game and saying that he couldn't "imagine anything in the Government Department that could get me up from the game," Putnam is clearly not taking things seriously enough...
...Fingers expenditure was larger than more than two thirds of the grants awarded to student groups by the council this semester. The sum will go to the Miller Brewing Co., which sold the council the fingers and emblazoned its logo across them as part of a promotional campaign...