Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempt to explain his actions at Chappaquiddick, "this will be a difficult decision to make." Yet he considered the question of his political future for just four days before announcing last week that he would return to the Senate, seek another term next year and eschew any presidential bid in 1972. Although he had invited his state and, in effect, the nation, to participate in his decision, Kennedy made the choice quite privately. Then, instead of holding a briefing or press conference, he had the announcement mimeographed in his Boston office. Some skeptics doubted that resignation had ever been...
...GEORGE McGOVERN. The South Dakota Senator seems considerably less than galvanic, but in his brief bid for the nomination last summer as a stand-in for Robert Kennedy, it was clear that he was gifted with more outspoken political courage than either Muskie or Ted Kennedy. (He was one of the first Senators, for one thing, to oppose the Viet Nam war-in 1963.) He might yet find an impressive constituency among the young, this time as the substitute for another Kennedy. His appeal to the middle and right of the party, however, would almost certainly be small...
...after 24 years of marriage, two children; in Gibraltar. Sir Joshua angered the Rock's mainly Roman Catholic citizenry and embarrassed the British government by getting his divorce with a private member's bill that he rammed through the legislative assembly-all of which may damage his bid for another term in this week's elections...
...estimates, assuming that those two giants alone had the capacity to fill such a huge order. Both companies sent in estimates and draft contracts calling for a total charge of just under $82 million. Two years passed before the Authority sent each company the final specifications for a binding bid. Then U.S. Steel raised its bid to $122.2 million, and Bethlehem came in at $118.1 million...
Steel executives disclaim any fixing. They argue that the job would have tied up such a large share of the facilities of U.S. Steel or Bethlehem that both companies had to add unusually large contingency costs to their bids. Defenders of the big firms also say that the smaller companies are using much low-cost Japanese steel and that the Port Authority loosened the specifications to enable the smaller firms to bid low. However, an Authority consultant maintains: "The number of tons, the character of the work, the size of the job, and the difficulty of erection were the same...