Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reportedly met on Friday morning to begin negotiating terms for a forthcoming offer, which would create the largest TV-station group in the country, reaching more than 32% of all TV homes. Chemical Banking Corp. and J.P. Morgan & Co. each has committed $1 billion in loans to Westinghouse's bid...
Sanders will face several challenges in his bid for a Senate seat. Having lived in North Carolina for only six years, he will have difficulty claiming long-time allegiance to state issues, said Tom Drew, a Durham public relations consultant...
Sanders will also have to face scandal-houndsin his Senate bid. His 26-year-old son,Christopher, was arrested in June forcounterfeiting $3,720 in twenty-dollar bills fromhis home computer and scanner equipment in hisRaleigh, N.C. apartment...
...more sinister. "In China, more and more people are wondering, What are the Americans up to?" says Cui Liru, a scholar at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations in Beijing. "Quite a number believe the Americans regard a powerful China as a hindrance to the U.S. in its bid to maintain world dominance, and so are trying hard to keep China weak and divided...
...changed rather than eliminated, while 47 percent said that the system has been good for the country. California Governor Pete Wilson, who pressed his fellow UC regents to make the decision, shrugged off as "utterly bogus"claims by critics that he is using the issue to bolster his presidential bid. Reaction from his GOP presidential rivals was mixed: while Sen. Phil Gramm applauded the move, and Sen. Bob Dole said nothing, Sen. Arlen Specter heatedly criticized Wilson for using the word "tribalism" in discussing racial preference programs. "Coded racial epithets such as 'tribalism' have no place in public debate," said...