Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Perot said he merely wanted to create a new political party not beholden to special-interest groups. Saying he was looking for a "George Washington II" to lead that party, he would admonish: "This is not about me." But after former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm officially announced his own bid under Perot's Reform Party banner, Perot got off the dime. "If anyone should do this, I should do it," the Texas billionaire told CNN's Larry King on Wednesday. "I'm in a unique position to do it." Lamm has said he welcomes a challenge from Perot, figuring that...
...Security Service, the domestic successor to the KGB, also got busy on the phone and sent aides to calm down military units around the capital. The crisis eased, and the generals later denied any attempt to pressure the President, saying they had gone to Grachev's office only to bid him a fond farewell...
...when both worked for Arkansas Senator William Fulbright. Twelve years later, after losing his first re-election bid for Governor, Clinton found refuge in Lindsey's law firm and plotted a comeback. When Clinton launched his unlikely bid to unseat George Bush in 1991, Lindsey was his only traveling companion, and the two trekked anonymously through airports, carrying their own bags. Once in the White House, Clinton put him in charge of personnel, but his range has always been unlimited...
...invest money here, and a large ad reminds you that the born-again town was voted the top American city for "global companies" in 1994 by one magazine and the best city for small businesses by another. Atlanta ("A Star on the Rise," as the logo on its Olympic bid had it) seems tailor-made to play host to the Centennial Olympics, if only because it is so in tune with the Games' unspoken tradition of institutional idealism and business-minded, slogan-wielding hopes of bringing the world together...
...praying began eight months into Symington's first term, when federal prosecutors launched an investigation into the Governor's real estate-development business. Last fall Symington declared personal bankruptcy. In March a grand jury looking into his personal finances indicted two associates for bid rigging on state contracts. Capping an exhaustive five-year federal probe, that same grand jury has indicted the Governor on 23 counts, including making false statements, wire fraud, bankruptcy fraud and attempted extortion...