Word: scale
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...buyer's fee from 10% to 15% on the first $50,000 (on higher amounts the buyer paid 10%). After just seven weeks, Christie's announced an identical fee rate. Three years later, Christie's took the lead by changing its seller's fee from 10% to a sliding scale of 2% to 20%. After a few weeks, Sotheby's did the same thing...
...must then select and train the independent monitors. Brown says he anticipates full-scale monitoring to begin by next year...
Weed admits that her idea has been slow to catch on. She has persuaded only about 10 ranchers to stay in a program to certify that their wool is "predator friendly." And without economies of scale and a strong sales effort, there are few customers for the $130 sweaters and $165 blankets. Still Weed is convinced she just needs more time and better marketing. "We're all suffering because the public is trained to think that all ranchers hate the environment," she asserts. "We have to prove that we're good custodians. There are plenty of buyers who will seek...
...Josh Edelman '00 sees the Student Playwrights Project as the core force behind his play. "Without the SPP, [my play] would have stayed in my desk drawer. I could never get the people, the resources and the money together to do a full-scale production of this script without a lot of work on my part, and it's great to know that there's a way this play can happen without all that fuss," he explains. Edelman's drama, Barbary, which he describes as a "meditation on the violence, loneliness and emptiness of much of American society," will...
...Jesse Kellerman '01 feels that the project has allowed him less work and stress as a director in addition to adding a "fun and experimental atmosphere." However, he also concedes that the scenes in his play are not as intense as those in a full scale production. "It's hard to act truly and intensely when you're forced to refer to a script in your hand," he reveals. Nevertheless, Kellerman feels the advantages outweigh the shortcomings of the project: "It's much easier to identify and fix problems in language and timing when you hear the words being read...