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...lost control. "These are family heirlooms," she shouted. "They've been in our family for 150 years. They're not for sale." But they were. Under the rules of the auction, the articles could not be split up; all of them would go to the highest single bidder. A lawyer for the Citizens State Bank bid $89,000 for everything, the only bid offered. (The rule was designed to stymie a common practice at other forced sales in which local farmers would bid only token sums for many items and then hand them back to their former owners.) Said...
While most cities concentrate on the number of viewing options provided by a bidder--such as Home Box Office and the Playboy Channel, the Cambridge cable television competition has been dominated by the issue of public access to the eventual cable franchise...
...bulk of the $180 million claims to Indonesia and Western Union after the satellites had been lost; in addition, they had spent $5.5 million to help pay for the retrieval operation. Now the two foundlings belong to the insurers, who will refurbish them and sell them to any interested bidder. Said Lloyd's Spokesman David Larner of the mood at the insurance association: "Jubilant would not be an exaggeration." Indeed, on confirming the second rescue, Lloyd's management ordered the famed "Lutine" bell rung twice, the insurers' traditional signal of a successful salvage, though normally...
...different kind of poetry: public outcry, sensational cover stories and often misinformed media assertions about the ill health of the U.S. judicial system. Once again, it appeared--a view fuelled by the 30 to 40 reporters covering the trial--that justice had sold itself off to the highest bidder, and a nut at that...
...card overnight could be a major tool for collecting deposits, selling certificates of deposit and maintaining checking accounts." Sears is also actively looking to buy more savings and loan associations to add to the one it owns in California. It was a bidder in 1983 for Chicago's First Federal Savings and Loan, which was finally bought by Citicorp...