Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council is willing to bid $25,000 for Third Eye Blind, Violent Femmes and Rusted Root, $20,000 for Squirrel Nut Zippers and $10,000 for De La Soul...
Hammond says he hopes Ventura's successful bid for office foreshadows his own victory in Cambridge...
...will soon be part of history, and Harvard might be the women's hockey team of the future. The No. 3 Crimson (7-1-0, 5-1-0 ECAC) upset No. 1 New Hampshire (6-1-3, 5-1-2) yesterday, 3-2, and made a strong bid to steal the top ranking from UNH, which has been No. 1 since the season began Oct. 20. HARVARD 3 NEW HAMPSHIRE 2 HARVARD 15 COLBY...
...German U-boats were sending Allied merchant ships to the bottom twice as fast as shipyards could build them. The U.S. Maritime Commission, desperately seeking an outfit to build 60 cargo ships for its allies, sent word to the Bechtel construction company that it would be welcome to bid on half the job. Stephen Bechtel, head of the family firm, had no experience in shipbuilding. But he insisted on getting the order for all 60. "Size can work to your advantage if you think big," he said. "You just recognize it and move the decimal point over...
Bechtel got on the map in a place that was almost off it: Black Canyon, Nev. With the Depression raging in 1931, Bechtel's father helped organize a consortium called Six Companies to tackle the massive engineering job that became known as Hoover Dam. The consortium bid $49 million and made a profit...