Still, Spillane did not wait to cash-in his shares for whatever he could fetch for them in the open market.
What is sort of surprising is how wildly overconfident Chesapeake was about the price they might be able to fetch for the assets.
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Ms. AWOONEY: No matter when these men go out to fetch for firewood, or when they go to the (unintelligible) that is when they use to get them.
In many unserved rural areas, people still fetch water for drinking and mix it with infant formula to feed their babies.
And while it probably goes without saying that at least a few still fetch coffee for the higher-ups, a fair number of administrative and executive assistants would probably look askance at a boss who asked them to stop answering phones, planning for meetings and dealing with the time-consuming minutiae of keeping an office functioning to do a personal task like that.
Walking up a fairway, he often looked like a kid ambling up the driveway to fetch his date for junior prom.
The new position of "runner" has been created to do things like hand out cups and sauce packets, and fetch juice boxes for Happy Meals, freeing up the order taker to focus on the customer.
They left out works put up for auction that failed to fetch their reserve price the auctioneer's lowest acceptable bid for the work.
Oranges sold for making concentrate fetch as much as 30% less per pound.
Even so, the works of some painters who made a living as illustrators (Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell, for example) fetch pretty good prices these days.
Fairways and greens may yield evidence to show what happened to the 118 colonists who vanished after the man who led a second expedition and also made the original map, John White, left for England to fetch supplies in 1587.
Many walk several kilometers from their homes in dusty villages each day to scrounge for firewood and to fetch water.
Worst of all, it seems that some animals are being bought just so they can be slaughtered for their skins, which fetch up to ten times more than a live animal.
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Experienced estate managers typically fetch six-figure salaries in return for a substantial skill set that spans everything from knowledge of fine food and wine to an understanding of art and architecture to skills in household accounting, personnel management, first aid, computers, high-tech security and HVAC systems.
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If they were to put the paper up for sale, it would fetch an enormous price from one of a long list of buyers, including Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, the New York Times Company and the Washington Post Company, who all doubtless believe they could run it better.
When she went out in society with Begum Harouni, Husna was not a guest, not even really a presence, but a recourse for the old lady, to fetch and carry, to stay beside her so that the begum would not be left alone.
If you believe your personal destiny is to reach the Forbes 400 Richest People list, but that your business is not capable of getting you there, then sell it for the highest value it can fetch and start or buy a business that has a real shot at big growth.
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Compare these with newspaper companies, under siege for their dim prospects, whose shares fetch 18 times earnings and soft-drink companies, at 20.
If Talley decided to sell him today, the bull would fetch him six figures, which is not uncommon for high-end bull sales.
While she expects that impressionist, modern and contemporary art will continue to fetch high prices, Corroon reports that the demand for wine, watches, decorative art, prints and photography is also zealous.
Like retail arcades, exchanges each seem to draw their own tribe of customers who know what they want, pay a premium for it and ignore bargains that would fetch much higher prices elsewhere.
AutoUpdate will fetch and installs upgrades, bug fixes and software patches for you.
Robotic surrogates that offer paralyzed people the freedom to explore their environment, manipulate objects or simply fetch things has been the holy grail of BCI research for a long time.
With this in mind, Schutz figures a bank whose shares can be had for about one times book value today may well fetch 1.5 times book in a year or two.
Their fins, prized for shark-fin soup, a traditional Chinese dish, fetch high prices.
For example, a newer edition of an e-book would fetch more instead of an older version as will a high definition movie print compared to a low definition.
New York art dealer David Nash, who ran Sotheby's international Impressionist and modern department for many years, says that though he expects the work to fetch a high price, he's still surprised by the auction house's "Scream" strategy.
Those overruns are partly to blame for leaving Mars exploration short of the multibillion-dollar commitment needed for another "flagship" mission of the scale it would take to fetch rocks and soil from the Red Planet and bring them home.
For folks who get the itch (and have the means) to upgrade their set every few years anyway, we don't see why you wouldn't make the jump to 1080p. 720p sets can still fetch a decent amount on the used market, and 1080p HDTVs can be had for a song if the right sale is caught.
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For business sports brands, I first calculated how much the branded enterprise would fetch in an arms-length transaction, and then subtracted the average enterprise value of what similar businesses the same size have been sold for, or are being valued.
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