Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week. During House hearings on the White House travel-office scandal, it emerged that in early 1993 the President pushed a business proposal by his friend TV producer Harry Thomason. Clinton made notations on the proposal that an aviation business Thomason partly owned be awarded a $500,000 no-bid government contract. "These guys are sharp," he wrote, and put a check in the box marked ACTION...
Without any other tournament contenders in its schedule, Harvard's 3-0 loss to No. 3 UConn on Tuesday has hurt its chances for a bid. Unlike the men's tournament, in women's soccer, winning the Ivy League does not provide an automatic invitation to the national tournament. But every victory counts...
...seeking to acquire First Interstate Bancorp, Wells Fargo made what amounts to the largest hostile takeover bid in banking history. If the deal comes off, it will create the eighth largest bank in the U.S., with more than $100 billion in assets...
...this, his second bid for the Council, the former Wellesley math professor is not seeking any outside endorsements from the multitude of partisan interest groups in the city, but rather is seeking to establish himself as the moderate in the 16-person race...
...VACUUM, AND Newt Gingrich last week was feeling its tug. Even before Senate majority leader Bob Dole's uninspired performance during Wednesday's televised forum in New Hampshire for G.O.P. presidential candidates, Gingrich had phoned key Republicans around the country and wondered aloud whether he should launch his own bid for the White House. Already on the previous Saturday, over dinner at the Connecticut home of Henry and Nancy Kissinger, Gingrich had fretted about Dole and launched into a detailed analysis of his own presidential chances...