As an official member of the ruling classes, first in a BigLaw firm and then as a Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago, he was able to make the contacts necessary to make serious bids for political office.

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The move may make higher bids easier for media companies to stomach by allowing them to spread their payments and leverage their association with the Olympic brand over a longer period.

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Indeed, the fact that federal funding to NPR is limited has created an opportunity for corruption: Outsiders see that NPR is for sale and make their bids.

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Hertz and his co-conspirators also submitted intentionally losing bids to the broker for certain investment agreements to make it appear that his employer had competed for those agreement or contracts, when in fact, it had not.

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For one, it will make it easier to vary bids by device, its location, and time of day, all of which Google knows from GPS, device signatures, and other data.

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Operators based their franchise bids on the assumption that more passengers and rising revenues would make up for shrinking subsidies.

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Traditionally, the U.S. government has supported Israeli bids to make peace with the Palestinians based on the paradigm of land for peace.

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"We haven't had any bids for him but while we have him, I want to make the best use of him, " he told BBC Tees.

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