Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rawlins is making her bid for the presidency, promising to finish what she and Hyman started. She has accomplished a good deal, including extensive work with anonymous HIV testing, Rape Aggression Defense classes and the student group and shuttle bus summits. Yet she is running on a platform of finishing what she and Hyman started precisely because they never tried hard enough to implement their ideas in the first place...
...seems, the news for consumers could get worse. In September, SCI, dogged by Loewen at every turn, launched a hostile bid to seize control of its foremost rival and increase its dominance of the death business in key U.S. markets. Yet despite the likely repercussions, the threatened takeover has drawn scant popular attention--chiefly because the consolidation of the industry has so far occurred, by design, well out of public view. The Loewen-O'Keefe story, however, provides a look at just what an SCI-Loewen combination could hold in store for future next...
...stock. It also forced the company to issue substantial amounts of new stock, thereby diluting Ray's holdings from 20% to 15%. Both developments made the company more vulnerable to attack. On Sept. 17, SCI announced it was offering to acquire Loewen. After Loewen's board rejected the bid, SCI recast it as a hostile takeover, this time for $45 in stock for each Loewen share, for a total value that Loewen and SCI estimate to be more than $4.2 billion...
...overwhelmingly important," Delaney-Smith said. "The Ivy League has an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, and they would never pick a second Ivy team at large. So this would just improve seeding...
Never have less than half of less than half of all registered voters managed to elect a President--but that's exactly what happened when Bill Clinton was re-elected. After spending unprecedented amounts of money for his re-election bid, conducting one of the most effective modern campaigns in memory and running against a discombobulated, disorganized and weak Dole campaign, Bill Clinton only managed to capture 49 percent of the vote to Bob Dole's 42 percent. After launching an unsuccessful bid to take over Congress with the help of Big Labor, Bill Clinton finds himself with a House...