Word: unwantedness
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PUBLIC AUCTION An appraiser and auctioneer can be paid by the estate to assess and sell any unwanted or disputed items at a public auction. Family members are welcome to bid along with the public for their heirlooms, with all profits going to the estate.
Ask any undergraduate which class has the shortest straw. The answer is sure to be the sophomores. From at least reasonable dormitories in Harvard Yard, they have been moved into the unwanted rooms of the housing system—reject rooms of the upper-class lotteries. They are struggling with...
Not that it's a bad idea - from the OPEC embargo to Iran to the Gulf War to the perenially-in-crisis Middle East, energy-related economic interests has dictated U.S. involvement in plenty of unwanted scrapes, and America's moral legitimacy in the Muslim world has eroded accordingly. The...
Ireland has a tradition of dealing with difficult social issues by making them go away. "We export our problems," says Liz McManus, a member of the Irish Parliament. "We sent our unemployed. We sent our criminals." And today, Ireland sends some 7,000 women each year to Britain to end...
Even if it were possible to create an exact genetic stencil of a lost pooch or kitty, that doesn't mean it's a good idea. Given that more than 5 million unwanted cats are destroyed each year, it's hard to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars to...