Word: auction
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Coast guardsmen take over Blue Seas, which cruises back to Miami with Dauntless. The $200,000 vessel will be impounded by U.S. Customs and probably sold at Government auction. The owner, who is currently unknown, is not likely to come forth to claim it. The 40,000 lbs. of marijuana-tightly packed in polyethylene and burlap and divided into roughly 45-lb. bales-and the erstwhile smugglers will be turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration. The Colombian gold, which burns at such high heat that it can ruin conventional incinerators, will most probably become free fuel, stoked into...
...hats, no cattle," sighed Charlie Finley last year when Dhe put the Oakland A's on the auction block after 20 years of stormy ownership. Finley was referring to the ensuing stampede of publicity-seeking, would-be buyers who did not have the scratch. But last November, Walter...
Otherwise "we would simply sell it at public auction," O'Connor said, adding "It'd be sad--it's such an historic institution--but we have to preserve our own interests in case there are other creditors clamoring for payment...
...with a rifle held up the auction house, then ordered Grove to lie face down on the floor. He then shot Grove in the back and the head. No arrest...
...auction as an interested observer, not as a buyer or seller. In no way did I see anything negative in action or intent. John Skow failed to mention that Mr. Hale made a plea for any conservationist, or anyone else for that matter, to stop him or let him know immediately if they saw anything wrong. Cutting the antlers off an elk is like cutting a person's nails. The people involved in this enterprise may be in it to make a dollar, but they genuinely love the animals...