Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...target: Conrail, the once tattered collection of government-owned freight lines that was created in 1976 and went public in 1987. CSX Corp. agreed to buy Conrail last month for more than $8 billion in cash and stock. Rival Norfolk Southern swiftly countered with a massive all-cash bid for Conrail of $10 billion, or $110 a share...
Unable to finish the game, the luckless Crimson lost its bid for the championship when Maine's Jeni Turner scored six minutes into overtime...
...Saturday, the women faced off against a decent Cornell squad (8-9) they had just barely beaten in overtime, 3-2, earlier in the season. The result this time was a much more convincing 2-0 spanking, and a bid to the final game against the University of Maine the next...
...back to last March, when Yeltsin, his popularity rating in single digits, rejected calls from Korzhakov and others to postpone the elections and decided instead to try what seemed to be the impossible: go all out to win. He dumped the drinking cronies who were botching his re-election bid and turned to the tough, hard-nosed Chubais. He also began spending more time with his family, a source close to Yeltsin said, and started listening to his daughter. Chubais set up a new inner campaign team. Numbering fewer than 10 people, they called themselves the analytical group. In addition...
Another year, another tournament bid for the University of Massachusetts-Amherst women's soccer team. The 23rd-ranked Minutemen will make their sixth consecutive NCAA appearance, their 14th in the last 15 seasons, when they face 10th-ranked Harvard at Ohiri Field Sunday...