Shortly after unloading Esat, O'Brien spotted a 3-inch-square ad in the Financial Times inviting bids for a mobile license in Jamaica.

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He wanted to know why Rubbermaid wasn't clobbering the supplier for lower prices and inviting bids from cheaper rivals in China.

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Unmindful of such dark prophecies, the state government has moved determinedly ahead inviting bids to construct the second part of the freeway.

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Prince Albert II, the reigning monarch, has flirted with the idea of another land-reclamation project, inviting bids and briefly giving his support in 2010 to a design by Daniel Libeskind, the architect who drew up the master plan for the reconstruction of New York's World Trade Center.

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