Word: unload
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...would consumers go for advice on complex matters?" We'll stick to the butcher, baker and candlestick maker. Next Time, Try Using e-Bay As a company, Vivendi has many strengths, but conducting auctions isn't one of them. The French-based conglomerate has for months been trying to unload its U.S.-based media assets, which include several cable channels and the Universal movie studio. Late last year, Texas oilman Marvin Davis offered $20 billion for the U.S. assets, and Vivendi acted insulted; a Vivendi official at the time suggested that Davis "take a hike." That bit of pride...
...some albums, a song track or two has been rendered unplayable when the disc was notched, which is supposed to make it unsellable. The increasing majority, however, are pristine, still in their original shrink-wrap and often carrying the price tags of the overseas retailers that couldn't unload them...
With the economy slowing, it's definitely not a seller's market for people looking to unload their high-priced yachts. So people are giving them away--sort of. Following up on their popular car-donation programs, charities such as Goodwill and Volunteers of America, as well as an increasing number of small nonprofits, are accepting boats and yachts, ranging in value from $500 to several million dollars. Volunteers of America alone took in more than 300 boats last year. Walter Cronkite has given two of his vessels to a Florida nonprofit...
...Space Telescope Program for $27,000 of collect phone calls from prison inmates, according to The New York Times. In another shocking case, three students who worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston stole a safe full of moon rocks. They were caught when they later tried to unload the illicit geology on the miniscule market for authentic lunar objects...
...take you and your friends to the chic boutiques in Paris and make sure you get the treatment from the snooty sales assistants that your hard-earned greenbacks deserve. But just in case you don't have an extra few thousand to unload, here are some of her secrets. They should work at the mall...