Word: auction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...build better schools or houses, or allocate more welfare for the lower classes because lower-class culture can't be changed by wasteful alterations in society or environment, no matter how large-scale. Possibly one way we can change the effects of lower-class culture, Banfield postulates, is to auction off its members' babies to the highest "normal" class bidder...
Festivities open tonight at 8 with a dance--music provided by two live bands who play nothing but Beatles tunes. Tomorrow there's an auction of all the T-shirts, buttons, posters, etc., that Pope's been collecting, followed in the afternoon by a series of guest speakers. You can hear author-photographer Jurgen Vollmer reminisce about the days when the Beatles were Teddy Boys in Germany, or listen to Richard DiLello talk about what it was like to be an office boy at Apple, Ltd. And if that's not enough, you can feast your eyes and ears...
...around in a beat-up pair of sneakers once owned by Basketball Star Julius Erving? $201. These and other market values were set at what one TV critic described as "an upper-middle-class version of Let's Make a Deal," a nine-day fund-raising auction held onscreen by New York's public television station WNET. While some 500 celebrities acted as auctioneers, WNET viewers phoned in bids on donated goods and services ranging from Warren Beatty's working script for Shampoo ($250) to a night at the opera with Actor Tony Randall ($1,000). WNET...
...Under Secretary of State whose administrative ability impressed even Kissinger, then the President's adviser for national security affairs. For a slightly standoffish Boston Brahmin, Richardson gets along well on the Hill. His dramatic resignation during the Saturday Night Massacre made him a kind of hero: at an auction last year, one of his celebrated doodles fetched $1,000. Now the Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Richardson, in an indiscreet moment, confided that he was Kissinger's choice for successor-and he probably was until he said so-but the ultimate decision is Ford...
...Harbor on a regular basis. The Salvatore and other small boats fish in the Harbor itself or the Quincy bay and sell the fish daily directly to the many fish markets that line the fish pier. The bigger boats can go out for several days at a stretch and auction off their fish on return. Prices fluctuate with competition: the more boats that come in on one day, the less fish is worth per pound. Prices are also affected by how much fish is trucked in from Canada on a given day. Fish that comes in by road is free...