Word: bidding
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...president Ron Carey. The trade-off, as proposed by Carey aides, boiled down to this: the Teamsters would deliver $1 million to the party's state branches around the country, and in exchange the party would tap its donors to provide Carey with $100,000 for his re-election bid. The true purpose: to funnel cash from the Teamster treasury into Carey's campaign, an illegal act that had to be done circuitously to avoid detection. But when no Democratic money turned up in Carey's pocket, it looked like another crazy idea that went nowhere...
...they ever. Just ask MCI. In a bid that would mark the biggest corporate buyout in U.S. history, the country boy from Canada by way of Mississippi last week offered $30 billion in WorldCom stock for MCI, the country's second largest long-distance carrier and a company four times the size of WorldCom. The bid demolished British Telecommunication's $18.7 billion offer for MCI just as the two phone giants were preparing to seal their transatlantic deal. It also shattered BT's plan to make the MCI merger the focus of its global strategy, a consequence that didn...
...NCAA division 1-AA football, and as such, are entitled to compete with teams such as this year's opponents Lehigh and Bucknell for a berth in the 1-AA playoffs. The winner of the Patriot League, against whom Harvard is 1-1 this season, receives an automatic bid to the 16-team playoff...
Among those in attendance were Massachusetts Senator John F. Kerry, a Democratic supporter of the McCain Feingold bill, and W. Mitt Romney, who challenged Democratic Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 of Massachusetts in Kennedy's 1996 re-election bid...
Wilson chose political expediency in his bid for re-election in 1994 and, in so doing, alienated so many disparate groups that he lacks any solid base from which to launch a national campaign...