Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admirals also suspect that they have been victimized by the practice of "buy-in," long familiar to the aircraft and electronics industries. A company "buying in" enters a low bid to get a military contract, then submits enough overrun claims later to turn a handsome profit. The Navy, too, is guilty of a form of buyin. It submits to Congress fairly low requests for funds, then returns for more to pay for overruns...
...ever challenged the stockholders nomination until last October, when a bid to elect an alternate slate fell short by several hundred of attracting a quorum to the annual membership meeting...
...Crimson first accepted a bid to the NCAA playoffs last year, but lost to Army in the opening round 4-1. Previously all Ivy League teams had been disqualified because of the NCAA 1.6 ineligibility ruling...
When Hayes was eliminated, however, the redistribution of his ballots pushed Mrs. Butler into sixth place in the School Committee standings, slightly ahead of independent John A. P. Good, who thus lost his bid for re-election to the committee...
...Enter Bel, France's largest cheese company, which may or may not have been behind the attack on Perrier to blunt its bid for Genvrain. Bel and Genvrain merge, and announce their combining as a fait accompli...