Word: bidders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, awarding ambassadorships to the highest bidder is not new. Yet both the practice and the prices seem to be on the rise. In his first term Nixon gave 15 embassies to generous noncareer diplomats-more than twice as many as John F. Kennedy, and one-third more than Lyndon B. Johnson. Certainly it is high time to take the embassies out of the pork barrel...
Among likely bidders are Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch industrial complex, and a consortium of British companies led by British Leyland Motors, producer of Jaguars, MGs, Austins and bodies for Rolls-Royces (General Motors, Ford and Chrysler insist that they have no interest). If there are no bids above an undisclosed "reserve" price, estimated by London financiers at $120 million to $150 million, then the sale is off. Otherwise, the company's physical assets will go to the highest bidder, British or foreign-but only if the buyer is a British company will it be allowed to keep the Rolls...
...slippery, multilingual Armenian named Kevork Sasounian, who discovers the original dragon's teeth (sacksful of them), which have been lying in a cave in Asia Minor since Cadmus' and Jason's time. What to do? Why, sell them as potential shock troops to the highest bidder in the cold war world of the 1950s...
...Although the minority contractor was the low bidder, he doesn't have all the connections in the Boston area that larger firms have and he hasn't handled many jobs this site." Thomas said. "But with this experience he should be able to tackle larger jobs and in the end analysis it should turn out nicely for all parties...
Joseph's chances of gaining control heightened last week when another bidder dropped out. The Rank Organization-a movie producer and hotel operator that depends for most of its profits on its 49% ownership of Rank-Xerox, the European giant in copy machines-had offered $1.1 billion. Some banks and mutual funds in the U.S. and Europe had bought Rank stock for the Xerox profits and feared a dilution in earnings if the company acquired Watney's. These big investors forced Rank to withdraw...