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Although the size of the reportedly all-cash bid was not disclosed, industry analysts have put the price tag at more than $1 billion. Tobu plans to promote Saks in Asia. B.A.T. is said to have received several bids for the highly profitable retailer since putting it up for sale last year in an effort to repel a $21 billion hostile takeover by Sir James Goldsmith...
...corner lies a new grave, the bare earthen mound not yet pounded flat by rain. A miniature Christmas tree, a few cheap ornaments clinging to its brown branches, adorns the tomb. Two tiny Santas in plastic bags, a mud- spattered price tag still attached, poke up out of the dirt. No plaque marks this resting place, perhaps betraying a neglect born of the longing to forget...
...price tag on Lithuania is now about $34 billion dollars. That's what Gorbachev said that the Republic of Lithuania owes the Soviet Union for investments in factories, roads, nuclear reactors and other improvements introduced by Joseph Stalin and the Red Army Civic Improvement Association...
...MIGHT be tempted to think that putting a price tag on freedom is absurd, and that both sides are clouding the issue of popular sovereignty by bickering over dollars. Our condemnation doesn't carry much moral force, however, because the Soviets learned their methods from us. If we cheer the Lithuanians for moving towards democracy, then we will be stuck cheering for Gorbachev for the down-and-dirty business practices he has adopted...
...again. Last week the Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 3 to 0 to give the station a license to operate at full power. Plant officials praised the decision as a "triumph of reason." They predicted that the reactor, now eleven years overdue for its start-up and carrying a price tag of $6.4 billion, more than six times its original budget, would begin sending electricity across New England by summer...