Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rivals have accused Fujitsu of a lowball pricing policy that keeps foreign firms out of the Japanese market. But last week a howl of protest went up in Japan when Fujitsu tried to carry out such pricing at home. The uproar occurred after Hiroshima's city government sought bids to design a new computer system. Seven firms offered to do the work at prices ranging from $2,000 to $201,000. But the winner was Fujitsu, which submitted a bid of less than a penny. The practice smacked of dumping, in which goods or services are sold below cost. Fujitsu...
Council Chair Guhan Subramanian '91-'92 said Squeeze's management called the council earlier this week after the body rejected the group's bid to play at Harvard for approximately $25,000. Subramanian said Squeeze's management offered to provide a concert with opening act Katrina and the Waves for approximately...
David N. Dinkins won election as New York City's first Black mayor, while L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia clung to a slender lead over Republican J. Marshall Coleman in his bid to become the nation's first elected Black governor...
Democrat John Daniels was elected mayor of NewHaven, becoming the first Black mayor of hismajority-white city. And Mayor Coleman Young ofDetroit, also Black, led in his bid for a fifthterm...
...governor's race will prove interesting for Cambridge voters, as Weld, a Cambridge native son, makes his bid for the corner office...