Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That policy should have been upheld, Coleman said, because the firm with the lowest bid--not the one favoring minority subcontractors--won the contract...
...more of the company's stock, and reportedly declined to put Malone on its board. Without the poison pill, a large shareholder such as Malone or Edgar Bronfman Jr., who heads Seagram and MCA and controls 14.9% of Time Warner, could gobble stock and launch a hostile bid for the company. (Bronfman's stake would drop to about 9% after the merger...
...diaries, Packwood first tried to threaten colleagues, warning that his memoirs would expose other legislators' sexual dalliances. He then petitioned a federal court to protect his right to privacy. That ploy took almost a year to resolve, going all the way to the Supreme Court, where Packwood's bid was rebuffed. By the time he turned over his diaries, the committee had again widened its probe, looking into charges that Packwood tampered with evidence and used his position to seek work for his ex-wife in order to pare his alimony payments...
...deal can be achieved at all, can it last? Behind the scenes, Serbs and Muslims are already arguing about how long the jigsaw shape of Bosnia must be guaranteed before the Serbs will be allowed to secede. The opening Serb bid was one year, while the Bosnians think their country should be recognized for at least five years...
Harvard's 9-3-2 regular season (5-0-2 Ivy) was impressive enough to deserve an NCAA Tournament bid even though it did not win the title. Harvard fell to the University of Massachusetts, 3-0, in the first round, but that game marked the Crimson's first tourney appearance since...