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...Orient Handel, a store in San Francisco, accumulated a stock of Persian rugs worth $1.2 million to meet strong customer demand. But many of the rugs remain unsold. Says Manager Albert Neherayoff: "Three years ago we used to sell a minimum of $40,000 in rugs each month. That's gone down to $20,000 or $15,000 -or even less. I'm praying that business picks...
...spring of one of Pablo Picasso's self-portraits went for $5.3 million, the highest sum ever paid at auction for one of his paintings. But during that same week, Christie's received only half of the $20 million expected from one of its auctions. Among the unsold works: a still life by Picasso reportedly done...
...more typical are everyday tenants who rent space to help ease a temporary storage squeeze in their lives: shopkeepers with a bit too much unsold inventory on hand, salesmen with bulging, bulky files, families relocating into or out of the area and waiting for their new home or apartment to become vacant. One particularly grateful renter is former Homeowner Mae Rose Owens of Winter Park, Fla. She was able to save her household possessions by hastily storing them in a local miniwarehouse after a giant sinkhole began to swallow up her house and a big chunk of the neighborhood...
...Yearbook did issue a short apology to its readers, but the GSA insisted on an apology to gays that would be distributed along with unsold copies of the Yearbook and in House dining halls...
...brick home guaranteed, he thought, to have the buyers lining up. Wrong. By the time it was built in August 1979, soaring mortgage rates and a souring real estate market had made a lemon of Austgen's plum. The house, appraised by realtors at $147,000, sat unsold for more than 18 months. Then Austgen had a sporting proposition: Why not let others take a chance on the house? He talked the South Holland Jaycees into raffling it off for $100 a ticket, of which $15 would go to charity. A minimum of 1,650 tickets (but no more...