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Stockholders should sit tight and enjoy the ride. A key question will be whether PSA ups the bid to either force Dubai Ports World to pay more or to get control of the business.

The bid is ill-conceived, poorly structured and offers Patrick shareholders a diluted interest in the high-quality businesses Toll wants.

The bid process is based on a balanced scorecard which includes things like facilities for spectators, practice facilities for players, dressing rooms, transport infrastructure and so on. However, 50 per cent of the scorecard is based on commercial return and Cardiff, backed by the Welsh Assembly and Cardiff City Council, were into figures we couldn't possibly reach.

The negative share price reaction to these results may reflect certain disappointment... regarding figures which only met, but didn't far exceed, consensus expectations (as the group has been able to achieve in each of the previous two quarterly results announcements) and perhaps a partial evaporation of vague, but continuous, bid speculation.

The new bid competitively pushes into the range (of independent valuations) without breaking the back of the entity post acquisition.

Not only is this is a great fund-raiser for our community but, it's a once in a life time opportunity for families all over the area to come and meet Eric Crouch. People should plan to stay and meet the different athletes that we are bringing in, enjoy the food and games and stay and bid on the many unique family oriented items at the silent and live auctions. It will be a fun day for the whole family.

The notion of using something other than copper or glass to provide telecommunications services is certainly beginning to gain greater acceptance, and I would argue that wireless' inclusion as a requirement in the bid is validation of that.

Doing well in this tournament can do a lot of things to prepare us for the NCAA. It could solidify our bid and give us a higher seed. At the same time, we've got one game to worry about right now.

It's unlikely that their first bid would be their last bid.

It's unprecedented. This is a blowout bid for the state.

It's potentially a huge economic draw. We have a good track record of hosting events and this will enable us to bid for regional tournaments.

It's probably because this damage was a lot less than had been anticipated, ... Prices were bid up last week on the idea there would be some great loss in refinery capacity.

The International Rugby Board will put a tender out for bids later this year. While it is up to the directors of the union to take a decision, I think we will put forward a bid again.

The Fed is toward the end of its rate hikes. Equities and bonds got a bid because the Fed talked about maybe finishing its tightening.

That same kind of destructive stuff is done on the left as well as the right, though at the moment I'm finding the right to be in particular, as we are talking the day after John Kerry's defeat in his bid to beat George Bush.

It seems everything was moving forward smoothly except for a couple of hiccups with the unions and the bid dispute, but those were just speed bumps in the process.

It's very simple: we will bid for the rights when the tenders go out.

It's very moving to see people come and bid on different items just to help the cause.

It ties in with their long-term strategy. In a bid situation, 350 pence does not seem unreasonable.

It works like eBay. You watch the item that you want to bid on , you bid the miles you want to bid, and you watch the item, and when you want to increase your bid you increase your bid.

It will provide excellent opportunities to demonstrate Scotland is one of the world's foremost events destinations as we work towards developing the bid to host the 2014 Commonwealths in Glasgow.

In a bid to combat deflation, there was a concerted drive by the Chinese authorities to get people to take their savings and invest in the stock markets.

In a cooling market you could make a bid under asking price that you wouldn't consider making in a heating-up market, where competition for houses is fierce.

It helped keep the cost of the plant contract down, but it was also seen as a more efficient way to do business. It made more sense to bid out the road-building package to a company that builds roads, rather than keep it in the bid to a company that builds plants.

I just don't see how his offer creates value for shareholders, so the board is right in refusing. His bid doesn't have a premium to the market, so it may be difficult for it to succeed.

If there is a bidding war, the last bid may be the 'losing bid' because that will be the amount that is outlandishly excessive and the 'winner' will have to live with their too-highly priced acquisition.

I heard they were trying to raise money for their Field of Dreams and being a good corporate citizen, I put a bid in. And apparently I won!

If you want to know the future in the black market of guns, it's the computer in your home, ... Under the anonymity of the Web, strangers meet on the Internet under aliases, discreetly bid for guns, and make the sale with no questions asked.

Investors are still picking up some paper. Yields were bid up last week (but) refunding starts tomorrow . . . the market may be weak going into the flow of supply.

He's smart and he's a very good skater. The question is if he's mature enough to play with the big boys at a tough position. It's a tough position to break into the NHL at when you are 20 years old. I think he'll have a strong camp and will make a serious bid to play in New York this season.

By next Wednesday, we'll have a much better idea where we are. We're still going through the bid packets, doing some value-engineering. I don't really relish going back and having to ask for more money.

By that time, a bid must have been approved for the senior center,

Home prices continue to be bid up in tight markets across the country, ... Eventually, appreciation rates will slow and come down to normal levels when the shortage of homes on the market improves and comes closer into balance, hopefully, by the second half of next year.

clear the air on Sydney's bid once and for all.

The visit of Cui aims at stepping up exchanges with all parties concerned in a bid to help resolve the Iranian nuclear issue properly.

(The) reverse split would be to take our stock above $1 to regain continued listing compliance on the Nasdaq. We have until Sept. 11, 2006, to have 10 consecutive days of bid price $1 in order to regain compliance.

It was great to see so many people raising money for Maggies. The event was a huge success both in terms of raising money and awareness of Maggies Centres, this is a big boost to our bid to raise 1m to build a new centre in London.

They helped us in the beginning, even with securing a bid for financing. They worked up all the pre-planning and then got all the subcontractors and architects put together to actually build it. They were experienced, professional and easy to communicate with.

They made a very attractive bid of $2.4 billion. It's frankly a little bit better, in my view, for Baker Hughes than it is for Schlumberger.

It was kind of funny because I'm not even thinking about none of that. I'm going to come back for my last year and just make the best out of it. After the season, I'll sit down and think about it, but right now we got one more game and hopefully we can make the Big East Tournament, get an NIT bid and keep playing.

I remember people running off to their hotel rooms to read manuscripts, and running back to bid on the book.

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.

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The bottom line is that this is a low bid for a company that has enough earnings power to fuel a $30 stock price even with the heavy upfront spending for its case-ready products.

The Forest Service appears to be having an internal fire sale, with the heart of our national forests put out for bid on eBay. We may soon see the Weyerhaeuser National Forest patrolled by rent-a-rangers, overseen by private consultants.

The four Test nations from Asia have reached an understanding and a written bid will be made in the next few days.

The girls have done quite well for this point in our season. We were looking at a strong bid for the district team championship, but players we expected to return to the program chose not to come out this year.

The high school drawings are being finished up in our office as we speak. The high school job will be out to bid by next week and bids will be received by March 10.

The union could put a bid in if they choose to,

The ICC has decided under a rotation policy that every third World Cup would be held in Asia. In 2011 it's the turn of Australia to host the event but they've not yet decided on what to do. If they say no then Asia can bid for the tournament.

a helper for Jan Ullrich at the Tour de France. That's top of the agenda. It is both a challenge and a great honour for me to get the chance to assist T-Mobile's bid for a Tour win.

The Chinese bid for Unocal is compelling evidence of America's strategic energy vulnerability, ... China has clearly decided to meet its growing energy demand by obtaining control of energy assets around the world.

The Chinese government hopes the two sides will make substantial progress in their cooperation of arresting and repatriating criminal suspects, anti-terrorism, and drug prohibition in a bid to promote constructive and cooperative relationship in the 21st century.

The coalition government ventured for such an ill move when people of the whole country are engaged in movement and united with the demand for reforms in the Election Commission for a free and fair election. This step is a bid to foil people's demand.

The competition out there is pretty intense. There is a lot of business that is being bid on, and it's being bid on aggressively.

the hostile Norfolk Southern bid is burdened with a series of significant conditions.

This is a generous enough offer to win the day, ... There will be more bid activity; voice-centric companies need to expand beyond that (into data-related services), and they're much easier to buy than to build.

These indictments are part of a continuing effort to hold individuals accountable for bid rigging and other illegal activities that defrauded insurance clients,

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For example, a restaurant would have a much lower bid than, say, a mortgage company....

Accepting the bid also implies that investors miss an expected 500 million euro special dividend and the benefits from a 500 million euro share buyback program in 2006.

For all the reasons named above, my colleagues and I urge the United Nations to consider Taiwan's bid to return to the U.N. with thought and wisdom.

It's taking into consideration the Rio bid for North, and what benefits lie for other stocks in those related sectors, that's why we're seeing an improvement in BHP and other resource based stocks.

It's on the Black Sea. It was a traditional summer resort for the old Soviet Union. It's at the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. In one of the pictures in the bid you see palm trees and snow. The city is in the 50s in the winter and then you have better snow there than in Turin.

It's always a surprise to get bid prices. Things may be changing if the private sector is slowing down. We'll find out.

it never occurred to me that anyone would buy into the notion that Mr. Bush and his supporters would actually do something about poverty and racism. Someone who believed that could probably be persuaded to make a bid on eBay to buy the Brooklyn Bridge.

It means stronger growth. That will give a little bit of a bid for the dollar.

It's a nice price, but there might be some other parts of the business to be knocked off too. The management needs to make a fist of its strategy. Otherwise we'll see some bid activity.

As VNU seems to be willing to open up the books, chances of a bid on the whole company have further increased.

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It's like having several Super Bowls without having to bid on them. It helps to define who we are. We are able to throw a party for ourselves and our guests.

That initial flight to quality bid on the back of softer overseas equity markets has been present all day.

It's still a possibility. But the valuation is high, and one thing we learned from the J&J bid for Guidant is they are very sensitive to valuation.

It's still a possibility. But the valuation is high, and one thing we learnt from the J&J bid for Guidant is they are very sensitive to valuation.

This past week's good news for reformers is likely to continue in the weeks and months to come. Record campaign fundraising (see Schwarzenegger's bid to raise $120 million in the California gubernatorial race) and the continued stench of national scandal will lift reform efforts in Washington DC and across the country this year and beyond.

They (Old Mutual) have tried to make the offer as friendly as they can. I would put a pretty high probability on the bid going through.

They have almost totally revamped their football field, but the construction work around the high school might cause too many parking problems for them to make a bid this time.

There were two different contractors, two different projects and they bid different prices to do the same amount of work.

There was very strong demand -- off the charts -- from the indirect bid -- about 65 percent, bigger than the 55.6 percent at the 10-year note auction in November 2005.

There were 20 ingredients that made the race happen, and five were absolutely critical. The other 15 were important, but we could have gotten the bid without one or two of them.

There's always a time when you have to call it quits. It is an ending. It has been an incredible ride. I came back to win a championship. Mission accomplished. Now I have to bid farewell.

It's just one other bid of evidence from a national health standpoint that tells us we ought to be educating day care centers and grandparents, as well as parents

Through this partnership, the NGLCC will ensure that LGBT businesses have access to bid on the more than $4 billion dollars in contracts the DOI awards every year, over $2 billion of which is spent with small and disadvantaged businesses.

We could borrow the money from the state revolving fund at 3 percent and hopefully get the bid out as soon as possible. Work could then proceed in the spring.

We certainly would question the appropriateness of taking public land and putting it out for bid to a private developer.

This whole bid process has been a great experience for me personally. It's given me an even deeper appreciation of how much hockey means to such a broad cross-section of the Ottawa community. I felt it was very important for us to bring a strong delegation to Calgary. I'm confident we gave Hockey Canada and the site selection committee a lot to ponder on why the nation's capital would be the perfect backdrop for hosting the World Juniors.

This was a very decisive victory by Berlin and demonstrates that the council was convinced that we are taking our most important competition to the right place. When Berlin lost in their effort to bid for the 2005 edition of these championships, I was delighted to see that they immediately vowed to come back, and they really deserved it this time.

This was the best, most professional, most meticulous bid process we've ever had.

We want to give everyone an opportunity to bid on the jersey they want.

We want to optimize value, but that doesn't necessarily mean the maximum bid will win,

The Morgan Stanley bid being a dime higher I thought was almost laughable.

A bid in the low 90s would be the minimum for Lycos because Lycos brings so much more to the table than Terra does.

It's finely balanced at this stage, but DP World will probably win the bidding even if PSA comes back with a higher bid before Monday.

It's basically a relief for the Bay Area Committee to know that whatever non-relevant factors that contributed to the selection of a bid city will no longer be part of the bid. I truly think that the process will be dramatically cleaned up and it'll benefit all bid cities.

It's been an incredible ride. I came back to win a championship. Mission accomplished, and with that I have to bid farewell.

It's been an incredible ride. Mission accomplished. With that, I have to bid farewell. I'm the happiest person in the world right now...It's better than I ever thought it would be.

There may be one or two dollars more in the bid but I think the price does reflect the business. If they had a fantastic product in late-stage testing, you'd offer more but you don't make a spectacular bid for a company that's not spectacular.

There were no other bidders. He just threw $1,999 out the window. He only had to bid $1 more.

There will be a silent auction and then the art will hang in the studio throughout the week. At the end of the week, those individuals who bid the highest on different pieces of artwork will be given those works of art.