Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does the money flow in after reordination. The Phillipses support their family of five children on the standard priest's stipend of $500 a month plus the husband's pay as part-time chaplain of a Carmelite convent. Cash is not the only problem in making the adjustment. One wife told Fichter that parishioners, accustomed to celibate clergy, are very demanding and "don't really give much thought to the priest's family." One convert admitted he favors retaining the celibacy rule because "quite honestly, I think that the personal difficulties and family pressures outweigh the benefits" of the married...
...check for $82,000. He immediately purchased a $22,000 Nissan Maxima, trading in the | bloodied Toyota and paying with a $10,000 cashier's check. Besides the brooch, he purchased a $1,000 pair of diamond earrings at the Ostalkiewicz Diamond Importers. There may have been more insurance money to come, from additional policies on her life...
...purchase, Sotheby's had lent him $27 million. "Whatever the arrangement, it helped to raise the inflationary value of that particular picture," asserts Christopher Burge, president of Sotheby's starchy rival, Christie's. Like most auction houses, Christie's helps buyers find financing from banks but will not lend money itself; nor does it offer guarantees to sellers...
...selling it so soon, if he sells it, Bond risks lowering its value, since it is in part the elusiveness of great masterpieces that gives them their cachet. "It's certainly a lovely picture," says Burge wistfully. "I hope we don't lose sight of that amidst all the money and the greed...
...Buchwald, the hard part will be getting the money he thinks he has coming to him. Judge Schneider ordered the studio to pay $250,000 to Buchwald and Alain Bernheim, who was originally scheduled to produce the film. In the next phase of the trial, Buchwald and Bernheim will try to establish a dollar figure for the 19% of the net profits promised them in the 1983 contract. Trouble is, the studio claims that while the movie took in more than $300 million at the box office, it has made no net earnings -- at least according to the arcane accounting...