Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's why hard-eyed observers took note of some subtle shifts last week. First, the buzz among the unaffiliated Powell operatives has quieted down. The people who had been contacted three weeks ago about a Powell bid have heard nothing in the way of alerts since. If he isn't in fast, goes the thinking, he is almost surely out. Several have likened the decision to marriage: either you know you're in love or you aren't anywhere close...
...result, suggestions that he is cool to a bid spread like wildfire through Republican circles last week, which had to come as a bitter comfort to Bob Dole. Here is a man who, if the polls are right, could lose the job he wants so much to a man not sure he wants it at all. The whole Powell drama has been one long nightmare for Dole, especially as leader of a party that is rarely inclined to flirt with renegades or derail front runners. Dole has polled Republicans nationally about Powell. "Like to know what...
...assistance on water tanks, fences and brush control, and they get help from the Agriculture Department. And then they scream about how much they hate Big Government. Sorry, folks, but it's time the free market was introduced into the West. Why should environmental groups be excluded from bidding on grazing rights? Open up the process, and let the highest bid prevail. Isn't that the American way? CHRISTOPHER ROWLEY, Kerhonkson, New York...
Citing major improvements in a program that had been plagued by delays and cost overruns, the Pentagon awarded McDonnell Douglas an $18 billion order for 80 C-17 transport planes. That's good news for thousands of workers in Southern California but bad news for Boeing, which lost the bid...
Cornell must beat visiting Columbia to continue its bid for first place in the Ivy League. Elsewhere in the league, Pennsylvania travels to Harvard and Dartmouth hosts Brown. IVY STANDINGS IVY OVERALL Team W L T PCT W L T PCT Princeton 5 0 0 1.000 8 0 0 1.000 Cornell 4 1 0 .800 5 3 0 .625 Dartmouth 3 2 0 .600 6 2 0 .750 Penn 3 2 0 .600 5 3 0 .625 Columbia 3 2 0 .600 3 4 1 .436 Yale 1 4 0 .200 2 6 0 .250 Harvard...