Word: bidding
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...case in point is the Harvard men's soccer team, which tied with Brown for the Ivy League title but won the league's automatic NCAA Tournament bid due to its 2-0 victory over the Bears...
TONYA HARDING Judge ices nervy ex-skater's bid to shave time off her community-service sentence...
...York City, Sept. 4, 1999: in an action that capped a decade of multibillion-dollar takeovers, the world's last two international media conglomerates today announced that they would merge. BMCAA Viafox (created out of Bertelsmann, MCA, CAA, Viacom and Fox) agreed to accept a bid of $638 billion in cash and stock from Disony GETCITWest (formed from a fusion of Disney, Sony, GE, TCI, Time Warner and Westinghouse). The new entity, which now controls all entertainment on film, TV, CD, video, telephone and computer, will be called, simply, Diller...
...relations with China, which many think have reached their lowest depths since 1979, when the two countries first exchanged ambassadors. Relations never fully recovered from the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, and have been battered by tussles over human rights, weapons sales, nuclear proliferation, Tibet, copyright violations and China's failed bid to join the World Trade Organization, which the U.S. opposed. On May 22 came a seismic jolt: the Clinton Administration gave permission to Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui to visit his American alma mater, Cornell University. China was stunned. The U.S. does not recognize Taiwan as an independent country...
...odds are still stacked heavily against independent candidates, particularly when it comes to the grind of fund raising and organizing without the power of party machinery. This is especially true of Bradley, who reportedly was having trouble raising money even for a Senate bid and whose moves last week had a distinctly extemporaneous feel to them. Nor would his personal style or inclination toward scholarly disquisitions on Third World debt lend themselves to his becoming the high priest of a political movement a la Perot. "He's a man who disdains sound bites. He resists making complex things simple," says...