Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eugene S. Kim '92, who chairs the social committee, said the council lost a chance to bid for a concert by the pop group Squeeze earlier this year because it did not have a "blank check." Squeeze accepted another offer before the council had a chance to meet...
...Football Club Gymnasium, the 2,714 delegates overwhelmingly nominated as party leader Gregor Gysi, a reformist lawyer who at 41 becomes the youngest Communist boss in Eastern Europe. Only three months ago, Gysi came under withering attack by hard-liners for representing the opposition group New Forum in its bid for legal status. Now, said Gysi after winning election, the Communists in East Germany will be merely "one party among others...
...house near me worth a minimum of $65,000 was recently offered for sale by HUD for $50,000 (mistake No. 1). I bid $58,100, but lost it to a bid of $54,000 because the Government decided to accept the lower offer even before the bids were opened (mistake No. 2). One bumbled sale a real estate depression does not make. But if it's happening in my neighborhood, you have to wonder whether it won't be happening in others as well...
Still, it is too early to count Hughes out. Harvard's 6-5 overtime loss to the Catamounts couldn't have helped Roy's bid for the number-one spot, despite his solid performance. And, although Hughes is struggling this season, a few early season games can't erase the impact Hughes made last year...
Sophomore Kevin Sneddon has already left to join the Canadian junior national team in its bid for a the world junior title, which will be decided in a tournament in Finland over the holidays. Hughes and freshman forward Ted Drury will join the U.S. contingent after this weekend's games...