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Ownership of ESPN will further ABC's overall dominance in sports programming, an area where the network never settles for the silver medal. ABC paid a record $225 million for television rights to the Summer Games, and the company last January won an auction for the 1988 Calgary Winter Games with an unprecedented offer of $309 million. Said William Suter, who follows broadcasting at Merrill Lynch: "It was a natural fit. They'll do a lot for each other." ABC will gain a huge audience of subscribers, and ESPN will share in ABC's access to events...
...Fair also showed the social and festive aspects of medieval life. Costumed merchants and artisans displayed their wares while singers and dancers mingled with the crowd. Activities included a medieval auction and a simulation of a duel...
...creating works whose best-known image is the child as sex object. One was the writer Vladimir Nabokov; the other is the painter Balthus. He is the antimodernist's modernist. His retrospective at the Pompidou Center in Paris this past winter drew large crowds, and in a March auction in London, one of his paintings went for more than $1 million...
...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...