Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Barnum of the auction business." Barnum, it will be remembered, held it true that "there is a sucker born every minute." To encourage five-figure bids, Wilson provided shuttle buses, disposable toothbrushes in rest rooms, free phones, simultaneous translation for a group of 25 Japanese, and $300,000 worth of frankly fabulous food catered by Los Angeles Restaurateur Robert J. Morris. The wine flowed like water, and so did the Perrier. "I think it's a goddam hoot," grinned a Texan, as a forklift truck rolled past bearing 1,200 live Maine lobsters...
...situation is wonderful enough, evidently, to make it seem economically sensible to pay $10,000 for several pieces of stained glass put together into a ceiling that might have cost $1,000 a few years ago. ("So it's gotta be worth $20,000 in a coupla years, right?") But if that $10,000 ceiling goes into a building on the National Register of Historic Places as part of a renovation approved by the Department of the Interior, it can be written off under recent preservation and renovation tax benefits. Or, as a capital improvement to a building...
Soon the thief, who by then was running, threw the bag at Easter, huffing, "I don't want it. It's not worth this." But Easter just kept coming. The thief, by now badly winded, jettisoned some more excess baggage, including a small scale for weighing letters that he had apparently shoplifted from another store. Still Easter kept gaining. Finally the exhausted thief collapsed in a parking lot. "I give up," he wheezed, whereupon Easter hauled him to the nearest police station. Easter's quarry, Mark Reese, 31, pleaded guilty to assault and theft...
Harvard is insisting that Haymarket Concerts enter about $20,000 into an account to make sure the non-profit group can pay for the necessary security at the concert and to cover any damages. Harvard also set a limit of $23,000 worth of tickets that can be sold...
Harvard is insisting that Haymarket Concerts enter about $20,000 into an account to make sure the non-profit group can pay for the necessary security at the concert and to cover any damages. Harvard also set a limit of $23,000 worth of tickets that can be sold...