31.   The buyer, who bid by telephone, was not immediately identified.

32.   The average fell sharply early in the day but almost completely recovered on a last-minute flurry of bidding by public funds and domestic institutional investors.

33.   The buyer, a private collector bidding by telephone, was not identified.

34.   The number of bidders crammed into two separate sale rooms and others bidding by telephone pushed prices for many items far higher than estimates.

35.   The reprimand followed and IOC investigation of the Salt Lake bid by senior IOC member Dick Pound.

36.   The spokesman said the card was bought by collector Eugene Gomberg, bidding by phone from his home city of Riga in Latvia.

37.   Unless the restriction on bidding by Americans is lifted, future U.S. contributions will be at risk, Rubin said.

38.   Four of the works which sold for more than one million pounds were bought by the same anonymous European private collector bidding by telephone.

39.   Romanian World Cup star George Hagi is set to move to star-studded Barcelona after all, following a last-ditch bid by Spanish champions manager Johan Cruyff.