Word: bidness
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Neighborhood Association members contend that Harvard merely wanted to curry favor with KellyFarquarson, who heads both the NHS and aquasi-governmental body that advises the city onzoning decisions. By selling NHS theland--allegedly at an unusually low price--Harvardhoped Farquarson would support Harvard's bid todevelop the Longwood Ave. property, Brookins said...
...brutal civil war, exultant crowds greeted them with flowers and handshakes. But when the last batch of 2,000 soldiers trooped onto a waiting ship at the eastern port of Trincomalee last week, completing a six- month withdrawal of 70,000 men, not a single civilian showed up to bid them goodbye. If the locals had anything to say to the "peace-keepers," whose presence brought not peace but one of the bloodiest chapters in Sri Lanka's already violent history, it was more like good riddance. Said A. Sivalingam, a retired senior government official in Trincomalee...
...after the first free election in East German history, a group of teachers in the southwestern city of Halle sat smoking cigarettes and talking about the balloting. Fred Hichert, an engineering instructor, said his vote for the victorious Christian Democratic Union was not only a bid for the quick melding of the two German economies but also a sign of his disgust with the long-ruling Communists. "They've had 40 years to test out their theories," he said. "Look at what they gave us." He gestured toward a crumbling row of apartments. A few blocks away, in Halle...
Four months after Japanese investors purchased a stake in New York City's Rockefeller Center, a Tokyo conglomerate has made a bid for the landmark across the street: Saks Fifth Avenue. In what would probably result in the biggest Japanese stake in American retailing, the Tobu department store conglomerate, together with the managers of Saks, has offered to purchase the Manhattan icon and the 45 other Saks stores from their London-based parent, B.A.T. Industries...
Although the size of the reportedly all-cash bid was not disclosed, industry analysts have put the price tag at more than $1 billion. Tobu plans to promote Saks in Asia. B.A.T. is said to have received several bids for the highly profitable retailer since putting it up for sale last year in an effort to repel a $21 billion hostile takeover by Sir James Goldsmith...