Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rules, said City Manager Bob Acker; only the city council had the authority to waive the fee. Nationwide publicity helped persuade the council last week to forgive the bill and avoid adding insult to Pallamary's injury. Pallamary called the action "very kind, but symbolic." He still faces several thousand dollars in hospital bills...
...whether it is true that he takes 20% from each sale. "Yes!" he says, beaming. He is delighted to be ringmaster of the classiest and priciest midsummer auction in a state where every third cowshed sells antiques. But now, on the auction block, Withington's rhythm slows. "Twenty-two thousand to 23,000, do I have 23?" He has stopped bouncing. A pause, then "Yes, now 24,000, yes, 25?" A longer pause. Here, if the article on Withington's auction block were merely a blue Canton platter that had peaked out at a predictable $500, or a coffin...
Jokes are not going to pull another thousand out of the air this time, however, and Withington's sure instinct tells him not to upstage the oxbow chest. It is a prize, one of the four or five best pieces to be offered. Yesterday at the preview here, dealers prowled around it, old predators who carried their age with arrogance. Kenneth Hammitt, a veteran dealer from Woodbury, Conn., ran his eye approvingly over its shaped serpentine top and guessed that it would bring about $25,000. Then Jack Partridge, an old friend and adversary from North Edgecomb, Me., showed...
...Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things out of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone to many; thus, in some sort, to our whole Nation...
...important about changing the snaps. We told him that this is Ralph Lauren and this is what it's going to be. So we had to send a man to Japan to pick up the buttons and take them to Korea. All that for a couple of thousand jackets that retailed at about...