Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...force the networks to keep low-rated shows on the air or force advertisers to pay high rates for commercial time on them. While studies show that blacks watch far more television than non-blacks--about 70.4 hours a week and 50.2 hours, respectively--advertisers remain unwilling to pay premium rates for black-oriented shows that often have little crossover appeal...
...then finally half the price. If there is still no interest, the item will remain unsold. The auction house does not own any of the items that it sells; rather, they sell on consignment, and receive a seller's commission from the original owner and a buyer's premium of 15 percent from the winning bidder. These revenues go to defray the costs of advertising the auction, photographing the lots, creating the catalog and paying the staff. Despite the rapid pace of the auctioneers (usually 80-100 lots are sold an hour), due to the high number of lots...
...estimate, and then finally half the price. If there is still no interest, the item will remain unsold. The auction house does not own any of the items that it sells; rather, they sell on consignment, and receive a sellers commission from the original owner and a buyers premium of 15 percent from the winning bidder. These revenues go to defray the costs of advertising the auction, photographing the lots, creating the catalog and paying the staff. Despite the rapid pace of the auctioneers (usually 80-100 lots are sold an hour), due to the high number of lots...
Performance space is also at a premium. Within a few years, there is a possibility that the Agassiz theatre will no longer give preference to undergraduate performances. Losing the Agassiz will only worsen the lack of space on campus. If groups are going to survive and continue producing events, the space problem must be solved...
...euro-aesthete's art collection. Among the bottles up for bid this week are great trophy wines such as an 1811 Chateau Lafite and a 1945 Chateau Mouton Rothschild, as well as some of the finest and rarest young wines--bottles that an investor can bet will collect a premium at the year 3000 auctions. Just paging through the Sotheby's catalog (it's available online at www.sothebys.com is enough to moisten oenophilic palates. One evident specialty of the collector was assembling "vertical" collections of a single vineyard over many years. Sotheby's estimates that a rare collection of Australian...