Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just any book. Publishing sources say that a few years ago, Buchanan attempted to shop around a weighty manuscript on his 1992 campaign. No takers. A dutiful account of a short-lived presidential bid didn't look like a good bet. Buchanan might do better this time, says a prominent editor, if he offered a book on "how Dole and the Establishment tried to force him out of the race...
...Chinese see it. As far as they are concerned, Clinton's policy is containment by another name. Not only have Washington's harangues on human rights rankled, but there have been other sources of friction. Because of pressure from the U.S., Beijing believes, it lost its bid to host the 2000 Olympics, which went instead to Sydney, Australia. Washington has blocked China's membership in the World Trade Organization, which Beijing wants as a venue for reconciling trade disputes and obtaining more favorable tariff treatment. The U.S. has also explored a closer military relationship with India, against which China fought...
What happened between then and now is that Cigar won 13 straight races, 11 of them stakes, at six different tracks. He has passed such legends as Kelso (11) and Spectacular Bid (12), and is bearing down on Man o' War (14), Buckpasser (15) and, the greatest of all, Citation (16). A stone bruise to one of his hooves prevented Cigar from racing in the Santa Anita Handicap last month, so win No. 14 will have to wait until March 27, when Cigar runs in the $4 million Dubai World...
Harvard had been blown out by Dartmouth two weeks earlier, ending the Crimson's impressive 11-3 season and its hopes of an NCAA tournament bid. All that remained for Harvard were thoughts of next year and the unfinished business of the Ivy League championship that could have been...
...wasn't until the following year when the NCAA expanded its playoff pool from 32 teams to 64 teams that the Ivy league was granted an automatic bid. Harvard's intense non-conference challenges throughout the 1980's were helpful in gaining Harvard and the other Ivy League schools respect as a top-level programs. By 1993, Harvard had demonstrated to the NCAA's that it was able of compete on a national level with teams that offer player scholarships...