Word: biddinger
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The bidding war that erupted two weeks ago for PCCW, Hong Kong's largest telecommunications company, might strike some as bizarre. After all, fixed-line phone operators are plagued by low growth, ferocious competition and disruptive Internet technologies, making them hard to love?and PCCW is no exception. In the...
And so might its contract. Officials have tried to relax some rules to open the bidding process to more competitors. For example, companies can now provide representative samples of their products instead of actual currency paper. But absent legislative action, the Treasury is limited in what it can do.
So to review the bidding: Bush's Justice Department is blocked from investigating its own controversial spy program; a leading conservative jurist resigns, reportedly in part over the government's handling of civil liberties; and a big NSA program of eavesdropping on Americans' phone-calling patterns is revealed. Will this...
Only the deaf know Hounslow. The west London borough sits uncomfortably beneath the flight paths of nearby Heathrow Airport, where many of the vicinity's largely immigrant Indian and Pakistani residents labor as porters, cleaners and security guards - dreaming of escape, a better life for their children and, for now...
The Hamas statement could be read as a product of the pressure on the movement to distance itself from terrorism from even those Arab regimes that have stepped in to fund the Palestinian government. But Hamas is not typically prone to do the bidding of others, and could just as...