Word: bidders
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However, aggressive lobbyists for the Baby Bells soon persuaded leading Republicans like Newt Gingrich to "stay true to their deregulatory roots" and vote for immediate, total deregulation. As more and more government decisions get decided by the highest bidder, the Baby Bells look to turn their current advantages into total domination of the information market...
Hackers may be the new mercenaries, available to the highest bidder. During the Gulf War, according to Pentagon officials, a group of Dutch hackers offered to disrupt the U.S. military's deployment to the Middle East for $1 million. Saddam Hussein spurned the offer. The potential for disruption was great, says Steve Kent, a private computer-security expert in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of a Pentagon advisory panel on defensive information warfare. "In the Gulf War the military made extensive use of the Internet for its communications, and it would have suffered had the Iraqis decided to take...
Westinghouse Electric Corp. ushered in the second major network acquisition in as many days when it announced it would purchase cbs Inc. for $5.4 billion. Some analysts expect that a higher bidder--Ted Turner, perhaps--may emerge...
...many ethical questions unresolved, Harvard should work on developing a broader policy to eliminate as many conflicts as possible before jumping into another Institutes- like project. By recklessly forging links to biotech companies and investment firms, Harvard runs the risk of selling out its academic ideals to the highest bidder...
...Healy replied that state law requires Cambridge to award contracts to the lowest bidder, after fulfilling a 10 percent quota for minority firms...