Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Silber has not yet declared his candidacy, several Democratic leaders in the State House said the B.U. president has contacted them about the possibility of a gubernatorial bid...
...hasn't been offered," Healy said. But even if a bid were made, the city clerk informed the council, a municipal ordinance would preclude him from accepting such a position for a period of two years after leaving city government...
...administration has promised to give Moscow most-favored-nation trade benefits, and to support its bid to participate in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an international trading organization, in exchange for Soviet relaxation of emigration restrictions on Soviet Jews...
...market was going like the Wabash Cannon Ball through 1988 and 1989, Bond's own finances were not. His bid for Irises had been part of a consistent pattern: paying far too much for investments even though they were, as assets, sound. In 1987 he paid more than $700 million for Kerry Packer's TV stations in Australia. In the financial year ending last June, Bond's media firm posted a $34 million loss. Also in 1987, Bond paid more than $1 billion for the U.S. brewery G. Heileman, whose 1989 resale value is about half that...
...would-be assassin died in the fire fight. The third J.V.P. leader was shot in a separate incident. Skeptics suspected that the security forces simply murdered the rebel leaders, who had led a two-year terror campaign against the government's decision to admit Indian military forces in a bid to settle another insurgency...