Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alumni pro-divestment activists cheered when South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu won his bid for a seat on the 30-member Board of Overseers this June, but soon wondered if the election was just the sweet coating to a very bitter pill...
...faculty committee recommended Jackson for tenure by a "preliminary" vote of 47-7, but her bid fell below the "substantial majority" needed when support dwindled to a slim 25-24 majority three weeks later...
...company can focus on its newer ventures, which include three hotel chains (Embassy Suites, Hampton Inns, Homewood Suites) and Harrah's casinos. The sale will also allow Holiday to reduce more than $2 billion of debt, most of it incurred during a 1987 battle to fend off a takeover bid by Donald Trump...
...dramatic developments came largely from Walesa, who shrewdly seized an opportunity to precipitate the change in government by wooing away the Communists' junior parliamentary partners. Walesa then wisely refrained from seeking the Prime Minister's job himself, preferring to work behind the scenes and perhaps eventually make a bid for the presidency...
ENVIRONMENT: An acrobatic bid to save the forests...