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...folks who work for the insurance giant are not to blame for this pathetic mess. I work mostly with nonprofits like hospices andfood banks. Our 55-year-old company, VALIC, was highly respected for its integrity and personal service. AIG is now selling our profitable company to the highest bidder to help pay back taxpayers. The good news is that we are reversing our ill-advised name change, dropping AIG Retirement in favor of our original name. But what am I supposed to do with all my AIG-embroidered hats, shirts and jackets? John Wilkins, APTOS, CALIF...
...expected to rise throughout the balance of the year. IBM clearly arbitraged the joblessness in the U.S. and India as it made its decision about where to employ several thousand people. To put it crassly, IBM is looking for the equivalent of the lowest cost bidder...
...Army and the Marines are spelled out in the request for bids: blas-resistant, off-road vehicles that drive 65 mph, have 16 inches of ground clearance, accelerate from zero to 30 mph in 12 seconds and weigh no more than 10 tons. Oh yes, the winning bidder also has to be able to produce 500 to 2,000 vehicles within a couple of months...
...want to stress that I will not pay for this bid.' CAI MINGCHAO, the winning bidder on the $36 million statues and a member of China's Lost Cultural Relics Foundation, saying he sabotaged the auction out of a sense of patriotic duty...
...will also free up a lot of space on the overcrowded airwaves. Some of it will be used for an improved post--Sept. 11, post-Katrina emergency-broadcast system (yes, even better than those color bars and that weirdly aggravating tone). The rest of it went to the highest bidder: last year, in the biggest government auction of all time, rights to much of the 700-MHz spectrum--known to you and me as UHF channels 52 through 69--were sold off for an astounding $19 billion. Verizon and AT&T were the big winners. What they'll do with...