Word: auction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rare pink diamond set for auction last week in Sotheby's New York City gallery was, like the venerable institution, one of a kind. Appraisers at the 239-year-old auction house had estimated the value of the nearly flawless 9.58-carat gem at more than half a million dollars. But the day before the diamond was due to be auctioned, Sotheby's officials had a problem: the stone was missing...
...taxes and $250,000 to his agent; his extravagant personal life had produced skyrocketing bills for alimony and child support. He sold off parts of his Brooklyn Heights brownstone, gradually marooning himself on its spacious fourth floor. A house in Provincetown, Mass., was sold at an Internal Revenue Service auction. He interrupted his work on Ancient Evenings to write books for quick money. One paid an unexpected dividend: The Executioner's Song, his account of the life and death of Gary Gilmore, won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for fiction...
...drilling rights auction brought in more than $1.28 million in immediate cash payments and could bring a good bit more in future royalty payments, said the chairman of A&M's Board of Regents, H.R. "Bum" Bright...
...ease concern that the satellite auction might lead to dismantling of the 113-year-old U.S. Weather Service, John V. Byrne, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, its parent agency, promised that the Government would continue to distribute basic weather forecasts without charge. "The man in the street," he said, would still be told "whether he should wear a raincoat." These assurances are not likely to head off a storm in Congress, which must approve the sale. Groups like the National Farm Union are threatening opposition for fear of losing such no-cost services as frost warnings. Scientists...
Hyster's high-stakes auction...