Word: bidding
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Defensively, the team has jelled quickly and held firm through some tough situations. Against Cornell last week, Harvard put forth its finest defensive performance on the season, twice stopping Big Red drives inside the 10-yard line and ending another late bid for a touchdown with an interception...
...into the seventh-floor study that U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher favors for informal staff meetings. Like his boss, Holbrooke was in shirt sleeves. But unlike the dapper Christopher, the chief U.S. negotiator on Bosnia looked rumpled and exhausted. More than five weeks of shuttle diplomacy in a bid to bring peace to the Balkans had sapped him of the nervous energy that usually suffuses his ample frame. But if the sparks were not exactly flying off Holbrooke, the news he brought to Washington was electrifying enough. As a clutch of State Department officials peered over his shoulder...
...Denver Archdiocese bid on a terra-cotta relief of the Annunciation. It was unsuccessful, but picked up two early oils for the seminary library. "Everybody can walk away with something. If you keep your wits and don't get carried away, you can do well," observed Robert Delaney, an antiques dealer, on his way to pick up a bronze sculpture by Denver artist Edgar Britton, for which he successfully bid $1,700. Art dealer Charles Angelucci, on his cellular phone to clients as he bid, exulted over a Thomas Sully family portrait that he bought for $3,000. That...
George, we ought to bear in mind, is not the only post-partisan act in town. General Colin Powell, in toying with an independent bid for president, also advocates a reconsideration of the traditional two-party system. There is a glaring difference however...
...climactic fashion show and the credits roll, we're sorry to bid ciao to Mizrahi's playful face and fashions. "Unzipped" may not be an 80-minute crash course in how to be a fashion designer, but it's a compelling "gesture" to a grand master of style...