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    [One such item was an early 1900s royal scepter of England's King Edward VII. The lot opened with a minimum of $1,000. Thirty-five bids later, it sold for $40,100.] Any time an item sells for 40 times its opening bid, you've got to give it the credit it deserves, ... This auction has gone a long way to establishing the standards for many collectibles that to this point did not have benchmarks.

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It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms coming, and sometimes read more

It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms coming, and sometimes you can't.

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Swings in U.S. stocks always hit here hard, but lingering concern about the health of Japan's banking system is the read more

Swings in U.S. stocks always hit here hard, but lingering concern about the health of Japan's banking system is the main factor weighing heavy.

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This is just another confirmation that redistricting brought about fair representation for the people of Texas.

This is just another confirmation that redistricting brought about fair representation for the people of Texas.

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I think she was able to look at it and think, this isn't just one project; I can group these read more

I think she was able to look at it and think, this isn't just one project; I can group these things together, and we can make all these things happen. She was able to present a bigger package, and that's how it was able to work.

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Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to read more

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

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This panics the community. It makes people scared. And for no reason.

This panics the community. It makes people scared. And for no reason.

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People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forcewe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval read more

People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forcewe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval notion that there is an aristocracy and a people, and the people want a piece of what the aristocracy hada life subsidized enough to have a minimum of work and a maximum of pleasure.

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They inspected the shell casings and determined they were empty. They said it would be safe to remove the remaining read more

They inspected the shell casings and determined they were empty. They said it would be safe to remove the remaining slabs. They came back today with a crew from the Crane Naval Depot and determined they were empty and harmless.

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It is the duty of the Security Council now to take a decision to immediately lift sanctions on Libya, which read more

It is the duty of the Security Council now to take a decision to immediately lift sanctions on Libya, which has cooperated fully with the court to end this case,

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