21.   After mulling over their options for a year, the seven regional Bell telephone companies formally put their gigantic research consortium, Bellcore, on the auction block Thursday.

22.   But every week, not too far from where the trinkets of Camelot went on the auction block, another affair routinely draws her fans.

23.   But because users can list items without any screening, all sorts of stuff ends up hitting the auction block alongside all those Beanie Babies and Pez dispensers.

24.   But it could signal that Heinz may be putting itself on the auction block.

25.   By almost all accounts, it would seem that Quaker Oats was still very much on the auction block.

26.   By the time it reached the auction block in New York on Friday, it had traveled to Milan, Zurich, Seoul and Tokyo.

27.   CGNU publicly said it was putting CGU Insurance on the auction block in February.

28.   Coney Island was one of the first hospitals to be put on the auction block.

29.   Continued mergers and acquisitions could put the rest of Ball on the auction block, he said.

30.   Correll has hinted to analysts recently that more assets may be on the auction block as the company tries to pay down its hefty debt.