Word: auction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...open the front door, the investigators were astonished. Instead of the expected depot of pistols and machine guns, they found a cache ofobjets d'art and religious mementos, including a photograph of Giancana having a private audience with Pope Pius XII. Later, when this trove was sold at auction, Giancana's daughter Antoinette told prospective bidders: "Just look at these beautiful things. They show what a warm, sensitive person my father...
...savings in an Individual Retirement Account. It thus lowers the investor's taxable earnings. Next, 10% of what the investor pays for the livestock comes directly off his taxes. Also, through embryo transplants, each cow becomes a factory for calves, which can be sold profitably at auction...
...officials, who had been planning the auction since September, solicited donations of goods and services and sent out 5000 invitations in an operation which Brustein said "has taken more logistical organization than the invasion of Normandy...
When the audience held back, Buchwald cajoled them. When no one bidded on a summer at a children's camp, Buchwald suggested that the summer program go to a needy child. The auction sale...
During an earlier silent auction guests bid on such items as a German translation of The Hotel New Hampshire, autographed by author John living, and a deep-sea fishing trip off the coast of Martha's Vineyard...