auction
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The concept of the “winner’s curse,” the authors report, originated with Atlantic Richfield Co., an oil company that sometimes bid in government auctions for the right to drill in various places.
Producers raise calves on pastures until they are old enough to be sold at auction to a feedlot.
Paramount goes hostile, refusing to accept defeat in the Warner Bros. auction.
From Los Angeles Times
Three Pakistani firms competed in the auction carried live by state broadcasters, with representatives placing their offers in a clear box during several rounds of bidding.
From Barron's
At a charity ball earlier this year tied to the Cannes film festival, Durov paid 400,000 euros in an auction to win Vavilova a walk-on role in a Spike Lee movie.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
