Word: bidding
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...away from them is if you take them away.'" So when a group of poker-machine operators visited him not once but twice this year and threatened to punish his political turnabout by financing a primary opponent, Jennings didn't budge. In his re-election bid, he faces Marlboro County coroner Tim Brown, who has hired one of the state's top-drawer consultants to run ads hammering Jennings for his vote...
...never donated a penny to the fund." On Friday the Mint retorted in a press release, saying, "This lawsuit must be a mistake," claiming that $1.5 million has been donated to the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, a favorite charity of the late princess. In a bid to seize the high ground, the Mint goes on to say, "Name calling and baseless lawsuits of this type don't serve anyone--certainly not the memory of Princess Diana...
Russia's Central Bank tripled interest rates today to a surreal 150 percent. The desperate bid to cool a market meltdown was accompanied by a shift in speculation as to how Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko plans to save the economy: "The word yesterday was 'devaluation'; the word today is 'bailout,'" says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. And that may leave Russia's fate in the hands of Newt Gingrich and his congressional followers...
...manifest your greatness" by detonating atomic bombs "when everybody else is trying to leave the nuclear age behind is just wrong." India seems to have missed the message of the turning century: it is economic power, not military might, that buys global influence these days. India's nuclear bid for importance is more likely to earn it international isolation than the permanent seat in the U.N. Security Council New Delhi covets...
Then there are the auction items like the one Steve Graham successfully bid for. Participants can attend in person or phone in or write in their bids ahead of time. Hotel companies offer auctions as well, but InsideFlyer's Petersen says the airline auctions tend to have sexier awards. Take Northwest's: since 1996, WorldPerks, the frequent-flyer program of the airline, based in Minneapolis, Minn., has conducted three bidding sessions--in Detroit, Minneapolis and at Sotheby's in New York City. No minimum bids are required, and the proceedings are open to any of WorldPerks' approximately 17 million members...