In theory, foreign companies will be free to bid for Yuganskneftegaz, but in practice this is unlikely.
Google is also offering some songs from bands such as The Rolling Stones and Coldplay free in a bid to get people to try its new service.
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Mr. Carter was trounced in his 1980 re-election bid by free-marketer Ronald Reagan, who slashed marginal income-tax rates and regulations and lowered trade barriers.
So, who in the state of Wisconsin would be in a position to buy or operate these utilities such operations and benefit from a bid-free scenario?
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On Jan. 11, as Mr. Hollande launched the Mali campaign, France also conducted a helicopter commando mission in Somalia in a failed bid to free a French hostage.
This week, Dorling Kindersley, a British publisher of illustrated books, announced that it is to display whole books online, free, in a bid to keep up with the race to sell over the web.
In a separate twist in the tangled matter of Mr. Petraeus's resignation, the CIA disputed a theory advanced by Ms. Broadwell that insurgents may have attacked the U.S. consulate and a CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 in a bid to free militants being held there by the agency.
Residents are being asked to club together in a bid to provide free wi-fi access for a Nottinghamshire town.
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Jay Rayner, restaurant critic for the Observer newspaper in the U.K., said he quit as regional chair because of what he saw as unchecked offers of free meals from restaurants in a bid to boost their rankings.
None of this augurs well for Laos's bid to join the religiously free-market World Trade Organization.
Matters are complicated by a second group of parents, which plans to bid for a non-selective free school to be established on the same site as the proposed new grammar.
He started his bid for survival by throwing the Free Democrats something they have long wanted by proposing a new law to ensure that counter-intelligence-agency files will be treated in the same way as other Hungarian communist-era secret-police files.
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Potential buyers offered low prices or refused to bid, thinking they could get the property free after it was deserted.
The economy has gone into a free fall, and sources say Sharif narrowly defeated a bid to oust him from the party leadership last month.
It would apparently prevent companies with less than 25% of their shares in free float from making a cash-and-stock bid for a company domiciled in Luxembourg.
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GPs are being sent to deal with 999 calls in a bid to cut hospital waiting times in Shropshire and free up ambulances.
If you say to me that the request for proposals, the call for tenders will be free, fair and transparent, then we say EADS will bid and we trust you.
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Glocer's public blog is irritatingly free from any information on the latest developments in the takeover bid from Thomson, his most recent post being about a recent trip to Brazil.
He ran the firm until its sale in 1999, leaving him free to focus his efforts on the younger Mr Bush's bid for the presidency.
The group, led by Khumo Bathong Holdings and three other companies, gave no details of their bid for four AngloGold mines in the mineral-rich Free State province.
But even more glaring was the disconnect between penny-pinching at the organizational level and profligate spending on past-their-prime free agents like Greg Vaughn and Vinny Castilla in an ill-fated bid to compete.
Apart from international shipping, Bolivia is also making a bid for seagoing and riverborne trade within Mercosur, the South American free-trade group.
However, as discussed above, many retailers have partnered in a bid to provide better service than Amazon, especially related to the free shipping program.
Obama's call for a nuclear-free world combined with his aggressive stance towards Israel's purported nuclear arsenal, his bid to disarm the US nuclear arsenal, and his ineffective response to North Korea's nuclear brinksmanship and Iran's nuclear project have served to convince nations from the Persian Gulf to South America to the Pacific Rim that they should begin developing nuclear weapons.
Instead of being tied to one firm, a worker would be free to work for whoever will hire them within a particular region, and therefore have their labor bid up by competing employers.
In a bid to offset the impact of sterling's rise and remain competitive with duty-free shops abroad, Heathrow's shops are offering travellers who pay in various foreign currencies a more favourable exchange rate than the current market rate.
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