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...problem is free agency, a status the players won in a 1975 federal court decision. The ruling gave them the right to leave their teams after six years of major league service and sign with the highest bidder. Since then, 248 players have taken that option, and the average major league salary has more than tripled, to almost $180,000 a year. The owners abhor free agency more than rain and have been trying to force modifications of the system. A strike over the issue was narrowly avoided last year when the owners and the Major League Baseball Players Association...
...Colorado. We feared that the environmental impact would be too severe. Now I realize how futile that fight was. Colorado has had it. Between the sagebrush rebellion and the oil companies, the once beautiful national forests and other public lands here will soon be parceled out to the highest bidder...
...imprint on the building. The airline's name will continue to be on the face of the structure, and Pan Am will lease the 15% of the building that it presently occupies at about 30% below the current rate for prime New York office space. Says Losing Bidder Donald Trump: "The deal was extremely generous to Pan Am, but after ten or 15 years, it will probably turn out to be a good deal for Metropolitan." The insurance company is already happy with its proud tower. Says Metropolitan's Shinn: "In terms of prestige, location and quality...
...Cambodia and the shah of Iran continues around the world. At home, our nation's leaders cut social spending and try to force a recession while they continue to pay billions for missiles. Our government backs nuclear power, allows schools to deteriorate and sells elections to the highest bidder--in short it serves the twisted, vested interests of the few just as it did during the darkest days of Vietnam...
...scholar who might attend a sale of arms and armor or rare folios, amateurs seldom bid for anything; mostly they were scared away. One intimidating aspect of auctions has been the seriocomic notion that by a cough or casual gesture the unwitting onlooker may become a high-rolling bidder. Only half in jest, Louis Marion, who headed the old Parke-Bernet firm and was the father of SPB's President John Marion, once cautioned: "Women who use then- catalogues to salute late-coming friends do so at their peril." In practice, a buyer who wishes to remain anonymous prearranges...