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We should now auction off the rights to build superstores and hotels. At least it would stop the backhanders - auctioning of telecommunication licenses
One oddity of the global economic slowdown is that many companies and individuals continue to over-indulge while others, such as Marconi, are on the ......(Continue Reading)
Literary Criticism as Anything But Literary Criticism - Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature - Facing Black and Jew:
Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature. By ETHAN GOFFMAN. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. Facing ......(Continue Reading)
The business: there's no evidence so far that supermarkets have used their growing monopoly powers to rip off consumers. But with Safeway about to be taken
Rarely has a takeover battle produced so much pleasure. In the space of a few days, the supermarket group Safeway received a [pounds sterling]2.9bn takeover bid from its rival William Morrison Supe...(Continue Reading)
Bird in Space Soars at Auction
Wednesday's $142.8 million (US) sale of Impressionist and Modern Art at Christie's is being hailed as a saving, pulling-the-market-out-of-a-possible-slump grace of sorts. I must take the words of others about impacts and ramifications; the dollar sum...(Continue Reading)
SpaceDev Auctioning Microsatellite Mission On Ebay - Space/Astronomy Archives
SpaceDev Auctioning Microsatellite Mission On Ebay - SpaceDev is auctioning a world exclusive private space mission on eBay. This first of its kind eBay auction is being listed for the ten-day period of 8:00 PM (PST) Monday, November 10, through 8:00...(Continue Reading)
Man Sells Forehead as Ad Space
Auctioning off your forehead as ad space may sound like a crazy idea but one man will make $37,375 in a month for doing just that. Andrew Fischer will wear the......(Continue Reading)
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