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If demand for one good is bidding its price up, by definition demand must be lower for other goods, thus bringing their prices down.
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In that case, consistent with good principles of competitive bidding, they let them low ball each other.
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The wise and caring leader must then decide whether to stick to the letter of the constitution or bend it to do the good people's bidding.
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He was there to check out a company that had sounded good on paper and was bidding to supply large machined castings.
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However, these firms are good at things like benefits consulting and one has to ask whether taking a major competitor out of the bidding for these other activities is doing more harm than good.
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In most areas this broadened ownership (thought to be a social good), and in several markets it invited a bidding war for scarce properties or a speculative gambit for flippers.
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The rooms had been refurbished several years earlier, when important guests from India had come for a long stay, and so Husna would live in better quarters than ever before in her life, with uninterrupted supplies of good food, servants who more or less did her bidding, and the occasional use of a car.
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Coined by Ronald Reagan to describe the Soviet Union 30 years ago, it was thrown at the Yankees in 2002 by Boston Red Sox president Larry Lucchino, after his club lost out to the Bombers in a bidding war for Cuban pitcher Jose Contreras (a good loss for the Red Sox, as it turned out).
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The more buyers who were interested in bidding, the more likely you were to get a good price.
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