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Our bid is primarily about legacy and development. Obviously we can't compete with England, India and Australia when it comes to money and ground size, but it would be huge in terms of development of our game.

Our bid of more ambulances and response times 1 1/2 minutes faster than our competitor would have a direct impact on the safety of Scottsdale residents.

I think one of the big moments for me was the second EVA. Basically it was the last EVA of my career, my flying career, so it was poignant for me to look out in to the black, open space and bid space farewell.

KBR remains committed to assist in the rebuilding and restoration of Iraq to help restore needed services for the Iraqi people, ... The company would comply with other bid requests should we determine the opportunity was a good business venture. KBR is proud to offer the company's global resources at this critical time.

It is not easy to ignore a bid when India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh decide to come together.

I think today's bid was a 'don't-come-near-me' bid.

I think it's very unlikely Alliance & Leicester will be around as an independent entity in five years time; it's a question of at what price and when, and there's a lot of bid speculation in the (share) price at the moment.

It got nasty at times. In the end, it got made. I guess nobody wanted it to go to purse bid and have it be in somebody's backyard.

I think we could make a good bid alone.

I think we've got a great shot to get an at-large bid if we win one more, but I really think we need to get by Ozarks on Friday. But the only way you're going to feel comfortable about making the NCAA tournament is by getting that automatic bid.

I thought Forest's bid was quite close to his true value. The closer I get to the window closing, the more I start to panic.

It is positive to see that there is sufficient interest in the company... We expect a bid in about two months.

I think it represented people who came back to reality after the farm crisis and looked at it realistically and bid accordingly. We're moving into that feverish attitude now.

I thought the competition wen;played was pretty good. We're playing in the Central Region, which I thought was extremely competitive. But all at once, there is not a single at-large bid from the Central Region. We had the kids in the classroom to watch and we were so upbeat.n;But it was dead silence (when then;field was announced) and the silence said it all.

Toll sees no reason to bid against itself to acquire Patrick. Toll will not overpay for Patrick.

Today's vote is a serious setback to all those in the Washington community who sought the return of a team to the nation's capital. I regret very much that D.C. officials have failed to honor the agreement they made when they successfully bid for the Expos to move to Washington. Baseball has no choice but to pursue arbitration so the terms of our original agreement can be honored and to begin to explore whatever options are available to us.

Typically, we refer issues to the prosecutor when we find instances of misappropriation of funds, something that rises to the level of criminal activity. We don't think we saw that here. We saw places where monitoring wasn't great and bid law compliance wasn't great.

We'll put the project out to bid and carefully examine the bids when they come in.

The Queen and Royal Family were strong supporters of London's bid and it was a delight to show Her Majesty how the Olympic Park site has continued to develop since winning the bid.

We don't have a professional bid on it. The cost of painting a bridge varies based on numerous factors such as the type of structure, the length of the bridge to be painted, etc. Therefore, it can range anywhere from the tens of thousands (of dollars) to a couple of million per bridge.

We don't have the flexibility of changing the bid amount. We can go through the whole process and someone else could beat us by giving more.

The anticipation is, people will bid against each other and drive the price up.

The amount of money the auction raises isn't as surprising to me as the popularity of our students work. We have people come from all over to take advantage of the student art. I like watching the children hold up their art work and see their artwork being bid on. It's a great opportunity to decorate at a lower price.

We reviewed documentation. Mr. Lee had the lowest bid on four of the five contracts.

The $20 bid was a little bit of a surprise. It reflects a high level of conviction in synergies and sends a pre-emptive signal to other bidders.

We intend to run the Olympics the way we did the bid -- on time and within budget.

My biggest fear is that no one will bid on my envelope, ... So have pity on me and bid on it.

We are now in auction mode. They finally put a respectable bid on the table.

We haven't made a decision about whether we would pursue a 2016 bid for the United States at this point.

We have known for a while that Microsoft was making a very serious bid to increase its presence on mobile devices.

Michigan Avenue are serious players in the aluminum industry, but without any details of the bid or the source of the funding it is difficult to evaluate.

We do have the best bid on offer. It's how we get that information out between now and Singapore that's most important -- momentum is built on that.

We're broke, ... What we have presented them is what we think is required in order to operate and attract capital and bid for business in the auto parts sector.

We have to submit an impressive and comprehensive bid by April 21 so that we can earn the rights to host the World Cup.

We put a bid on it at the state tournament this past summer. The state will look to have 150 golfers each weekend.

Whoever likes Jordan is going to bid high.

We believe these companies have the experience in dealing with the Asian market, including premium play, and we expect these companies to bid aggressively.

We do still think weather was a factor, so it could be a factor this time around. But the important thing about our bid is we've got the advantage of having all the venues in physical proximity of each other. . . . So I think that should overcome any concerns people have about the weather. . . . The ice storm really was an anomaly.

We've lost none of our enthusiasm for the Patrick deal but clearly it needs to be restructured. We believe any restructured bid would need to contain more cash.

We're always committed to trying to keep our best players at the club, but the size of today's bid coupled with Dean's desire to make the move happen meant that ... we've decided to accept this offer. My thanks to Dean for his contribution and his professionalism during his time at Norwich and wish him all the very best in his future career.

We ended up being the only group to bid on it in the end.

We use the funding estimates as a place holder because we do not know what the actual cost will be until we begin building. It's not until you actually bid the project that you'll have an idea of what it's going to be and even then you many have to adjust it again.

We have said all along that anyone is free to bid. We feel American Airlines has the best bid because it preserves almost all of the jobs, and more importantly, offers a major worldwide network into which we can integrate TWA, which we feel is much better than an offer that would try to operate it as a single small carrier.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter, the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

What we're doing now is finishing up the final design work like surveying and mapping. We might put it out to bid in a month or five weeks. Hopefully we'll be in summer when work starts.

We hope to go to bid in December and begin construction in January,

We did put a bid out for that specific plant. I do know we've had several conversations with them.

This will place Sun Vista at the top of the list in Tampa Bay. Everybody who is anybody bid on this.

We are going to make a pretty strong bid to defend our New England title.

We did not get a bid we could accept.

There are very few events that have significant reach anymore. That's the paradox of Super Bowl advertising -- why does a 30-second spot cost $2.5 million? There is a pool of money which has remained pretty much the same that is willing to bid for those programs.

This process creates an impression that the bid may have been launched hurriedly.

We have made a bid for Lee Johnson, but it has been rejected,

There is likely to be much deliberation over such a bid and it is almost unthinkable that the U.K. government would not become involved.

(Traders) usually bid the market up in the first week of September and then start clearing the decks for the September quarterly end.

We didn't really expect the bid to come. It was just a great opportunity and second chance for us to build on what we had talked about in that locker room.

We still believe this bid is going ahead.

We are looking at opening that project for competitive bid sometime in early fall.

We are looking at the possibility of a joint bid but it's too early to tell,

The pattern of the equity market lately is that it doesn't retain its bid for long. Bonds started to strengthen on a bet that stocks would weaken. It's rare that stocks hold a bid these days.

The decision-making process, with FCM leaving, resulted in my needing to make a decision faster than going with a large bid process, ... We sole-sourced it, and made the decision with counsel from the governor's office and Legislature.

We want to bid it now, in order to open up by Thanksgiving or Christmas time, because golf courses here make most of their money from Thanksgiving to Easter. That's the game plan.

We only traded down to $0.6855 over the weekend but went down to $0.6842 this morning, so elements of people were trying to force it down before Asia came in, ... It's been bid up ever since.

While tax authorities have increased surveillance and regulation in a bid to stem the flow of investment capital and profits to low-tax jurisdictions, it's easier to shift money around than it used to be thanks to technology. Both legal avoidance and illegal evasion techniques have become more accessible.

Those who rejected the bid from Philip Green have been vindicated. Despite very tough retail conditions, the management are delivering.

We are working as fast as we can to get this project out to bid as soon as possible. I don?t think we could get this done any faster than it?s being done.

We question whether anyone will bid for the company.

We're all checking into it right now to find out how serious the bid consideration is.

We have good hamburgers. Some people come just to eat and for the entertainment in watching the auctions. They don't bid on anything. It's just something to do on a Saturday night.

We are clearly giving some serious consideration to putting together a bid for the tournament.

When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?

There have long been rumors surrounding Lloyds as a potential bid target. Wells Fargo has a large part of its business in the retail banking arena so to take over someone like Lloyds would make a lot of sense.

We're trying to bid for the Memorial Cup when it comes back to the OHL and we're getting a new arena, ... It will be a long time, but I think it will be a great experience too.

When your name gets put in a sentence with Jeff Gordon, that's a bid deal. I have a lot of respect for Jeff Gordon.

We have no problems if Australia or New Zealand or both combined want to bid for the tournament. We are confident about our bid given the huge commercial market for the sport in this region and the overwhelming interest it evokes among the people.

We have seen continued bid activity and earnings have been reasonably robust. The market has had a great run in the first quarter.

When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.

We're still looking for donations of items for the auction. We're particularly interested in items that are related to athletics. Anything that people would want to own and bid on.

We believe that Danaher's proposal is an attempt to coerce Cooper shareholders into accepting an opportunistic bid to acquire Cooper at a low price,

We?d like to be able to implement different ways of looking at the service that we need, but the truth is, if the businesses that do this are not yet prepared to bid on those methods, when the industry has not reached the point you?re at yet, we have little choice.

Until now, finding out a current market value of any home, whether it's yours or one you want to bid on, has been quite difficult. We believe you shouldn't need a computer science degree or a real estate license to find out what a home is worth.

We bid this project right before everybody started having trouble with the steel. We're very fortunate, otherwise it would have cost 30 percent more than it would right now.

We bid very low the first time, not knowing, and this time we had a much better idea. It was a much better bid this time around.

Unfortunately, moving the bid was the better alternative than keeping the schedule.

Unless our people come back with some real surprises, we will be making a bid for the 2009 tournament. We think that with four very good arenas with almost every variety of seating capacities that we can have a strong bid.

When you've got multiple players going after a property, like anything, you get increased competition and people tend to bid higher.

We are making all efforts, including using our personal contacts, to get U.S. multinationals to bid for our exploration blocks ... so far they have stayed away, but I am sure this time things will be different.

To place a bid on the table without Investor's consent is not meaningful,

Bid me to weep, and I will weep, / While I have eyes to see.

Bigger players have multi-million ad budgets. The fact that they have to bid a couple of dollars on key words isn't so attractive to them. However, they can't ignore the size and reach of the audience,

What I've come here today to tell you is, if you make a claim on the bid, you will in essence be trying to punish me for my mistake to the tune of about $75,000. I'm here to tell you that I bid this job for you in good faith, just like we bid many many many other jobs, and when we're not low, no one compensates us for all the expenses we go through in bidding.

What's 77 centavos? ... We will definitely match that bid very soon.

Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid A million buds but stay their blossoming And trustful birds have built their nests amid The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing Till one soft shower from the south shall bid And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring.

Tweeting about objects means I don't need to bid on them, which is a blessing. Buying something is a way of saying, 'Look at this!' So is tweeting. So, I guess, is writing fiction.

Everybody in the family is happy with the move. I had an intuition that in a bid to bring justice to Jessica something would be done, but the stand that Delhi Police took on Monday has surprised everybody. I never thought Delhi Police would take a step like lodging a fresh FIR against those who tampered with evidence.

It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them.

The Toll bid is an act of desperation,

The Toll bid was ill-conceived from the outset. It has been a failure of both strategy and execution.

The winning bid will have to be well-rounded.

The whole program is going to be put out to bid with new contracts.