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...need is so pressing that the Pentagon is eliminating many of the hoops suppliers usually have to jump through. This time around, instead of filling in forms and submitting paperwork to qualify as a bidder, those interested in participating merely have to register at this week's competition to qualify. Among the front-runners is iRobot, the same Massachusetts-based company that makes the Roomba vacuum cleaner...
Fueling the competition further are disgruntled mainstream investment funds, which have been egging on PE firms to deal jump. Some have become quite vocal and even threatened to vote their shares against a deal unless a bidder kicked in more money. One such firm is Cohen & Steers Inc., a nonactivist real estate investor, which publicly criticized Blackstone's original takeover offer for Equity Office as being ridiculously low. The firm's comments helped trigger the bidding war that ensued...
...space pioneer. The only one to fly in all three of NASA's first space programs, the garrulous, coolly competent perfectionist had a blast, smuggling a corned-beef sandwich aboard the Mercury, joking to reporters about his thoughts before a launch ("This was all put together by the lowest bidder") and cheering Americans with intra-capsule antics covered on TV. Yet he was the go-to guy for such delicate assignments as Gemini 6A--in which he made a critical snap call to stay aboard after an initial malfunction on the first launch attempt, and went on to outshine...
...themes—not everything is as it seems. Several characters in the film mask their often shady means of earning money. “The city itself was selling the tone for the movie,” says Song. “Vancouver sells out to the highest bidder in TV and film...
Athey, who arrived at Harvard in 2006 and has done significant applied and theoretical research on bidder behavior in auctions, joins five other Harvard professors who have won the Clark Medal, including Eliot University Professor Lawrence H. Summers and Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein...