Sentences with phrase «stories of bidding wars»

This made the buyers nervous because they had heard stories of bidding wars driving prices up tens of thousands of dollars.

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In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

There just isn't much of a story in that design, which peaks with an overlong and outlandish scene in which Wally enters into a bidding war and ends up spending $ 10,000 on a pair of Wallis» gloves.

But, once her stories made her over a million dollars, big publishers had a bidding war over one of her future series, and she landed one of the biggest publishing deals ever offered any author.

News stories about bidding wars proliferated, and real estate replaced tech stocks as the topic of cocktail - party conversations.

There are many more examples of frustrating stories where our buyers walk away from a bidding war bitter and disillusioned.

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