The group of mostly African-American educators was skeptical when we set out that it was just another bid by right-wingers to wrest authority from the education establishment.
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Or else they'll send the stock down just as fast as they've bid it up.
Despite determined efforts by the auctioneer, Henry Wyndham, it raised just one lacklustre bid at the reserve price, selling to Franck Giraud, a New York-based dealer.
One of 35 agents active in Maharashtra state, it bid to be paid just 26 rupees (50 cents) for each person processed, with a higher rate in rural areas.
After-hours traders gobbled up shares in Research in Motion after the company beat second-quarter earnings expectations in its latest bid to show it won't just roll over to the iPhone and Android devices in the smartphone market.
London's equivalent was so feeble that it has just launched yet another in a bid to catch up.
The other thing that happened is, I'm sure you know, in the legislative passing of Sarbanes-Oxley, the criminal penalties that they were talking about were bid up from five years to 20 years in a way that makes it just very risky, particularly in our jury system, for a company to be public.
Nasdaq also tried to buy the London Stock Exchange, but its bid is stalled by British takeover rules, although it does hold a stake of just under 30%.
At last week's Acker wine auction, he sat at a central table at the Tribeca Grill in downtown Manhattan, raising his paddle frequently, casually, just a little flip of the wrist, confident that his bid would be registered, sometimes lowering it with a shrug when he thought the price had gone too high and sometimes dueling on a particularly choice lot until he won.
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Then again, Oracle made it clear from the start that it was willing to pay up (increasing the offer just two weeks after the initial bid), unlike Microsoft, which seems intent on not appearing lush.
West Virginia just jumped back into the rankings this week while Connecticut, at 7-4, would get the automatic bid if it beats South Florida on Saturday.
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