文档介绍：$210,000 WALLET1
auctioned his 20-year-old wallet on December 3,1999 and received a high bid of $210,000 which went to a charity, Girls Inc. of Omaha. The story about the battered old black billfold broke in The Wall Street Journal (December 2,1999). "I've never gone for the top of the line," Buffett was quoted.
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wallet survived the dunking in a Minnesota lake after a fishing boat capsized leaving Buffett dogpaddling. Buffet didn't include his credit cards, driver's license or a pass for free McDonald's hamburgers.
Survived=生存;存活;dunking=浸,泡在水中;capsized=倾覆;dogpaddling=狗刨式; include=包括;license=执照; a pass =免费卷,招待卷;free=免费;
He did include an expired half-price pass from Hooter's restaurant chain given to him for allowing the chain to note Buffett's birthday on their calendar. "I plan to leave the name of a stock tip in it for whoever buys it," Buffett told the Journal. It turned out to be First Industrial Realty Trust.
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interviewer Bob McCartney of KETV in Omaha asked Buffett if he thought the wallet bidding would get to the seven figure mark. "No, no, I don't think so...if it got that high, I'd be sorry I didn't sell it myself.
Interviewer=采访者;wallet bidding=钱包的标价;figure=数字;mark=成功,成绩;
" When the subject came up of the Hooter's pass, Buffett said: "It expired, and they didn't offer me a renewal." As for the stock tip, Buffett said there might be "a little mention" of pany Berkshire bought that wasn't public knowledge yet.
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Morgan of Wayzata, Minnesota, won the wallet with a $210,000 bid. Morgan was born and raised in Omaha in an area that was served by Girls Inc. Reports said