Under this program, property sales specialists in the Small Business Administration regional offices help small business concerns to locate Federal property for sale and insure that small firms have the opportunity to bid competitively for surplus personal and real property and certain natural resources, including timber from the national forests.

A high enough opening bid could signal a player's determination to be first ranked in that attribute, thereby dissuading others from competing.

Colangelo's bid received strong support from one of his friends, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, and media reports say that then-acting Commissioner of Baseball and Milwaukee Brewers founder Bud Selig was also a strong supporter of Colangelo's bid.

After the mandatory bid, bought additional shares from the public sector, made the NEEP held 78. 038 % ( increased from 67. 1 % of the Sensi ).

Within any level of bidding ( i. e. from one to seven ), suit rank establishes the bid ’ s rank, i. e. a bid of two diamonds outranks a bid of two clubs, a bid of three spades outranks a bid of three hearts, a bid of three notrump outranks a bid of three spades.

He seizes power from his regent mother and allies with the Bene Gesserit, who promise to marry him to Ghanima and support his bid for coronation as Emperor.

Each team receives a bid from another cheerleading company and goes in the name of that company.

You must get a bid from a company in order to compete at the Cheerleading Worlds.

For example, a team could get a bid from Cheersport, and they compete as a team representing that company.

Teams must receive a bid from a partner company to attend.

Since the 1980s theologians from the Oriental ( non-Chalcedonian ) Orthodox and Eastern ( Chalcedonian ) Orthodox churches have been meeting in a bid to resolve theological differences, and have concluded that many of the differences are caused by the two groups using different terminology to describe the same thing ( see Agreed Official Statements on Christology with the Eastern Orthodox Churches ).

In May 2010, Lineker resigned from his role as columnist for The Mail on Sunday in protest over the sting operation against Lord Triesman that jeopardised England ’ s bid to host the 2018 World Cup.

On 26 January 2006, HBC's board unanimously agreed to a bid of $ 15. 25 CAD / share from Jerry Zucker whose original bid was $ 14. 75 CAD / share, ending a prolonged fight between HBC and Zucker.

In 1991, the company successfully fought off a hostile takeover bid from the Hanson plc conglomerate.

The dining room was decked in white and green, illuminated with numberless candles in silver candlelabras ... The bride's gift from her father was an elegant house and lot ... At 11 o ' clock Mrs. Mitchell donned a pretty going-away gown of green English cloth with its jaunty velvet hat to match and bid goodbye to her friends.

John F. Kennedy Library | John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on the Columbia Point ( Boston ) | Columbia Point peninsula ( 2007 ) In 1977, after an unsuccessful bid to have the John F. Kennedy Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts close to Harvard University, ground was broken at the tip of Columbia Point for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, designed by the architect I. M. Pei, and dedicated on October 20, 1979.

In November 2009, former Cambridge United chairman, George Rolls made a successful bid for the club and became the new owner.

Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum attempted to purchase the Psalter, but the initial bid was won by the Getty Museum of Malibu, California, for £ 1. 7 million.

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.

The standard example is the stock of a company, undervalued in the stock market, which is about to be the object of a takeover bid ; the price of the takeover will more truly reflect the value of the company, giving a large profit to those who bought at the current price — if the merger goes through as predicted.

The contract is an exchange of the right to establish which suit, if any, is trumps for an undertaking to win ( at least ) the number of tricks specified by the highest bid.

It can sometimes be advantageous to bid a contract that one does not expect to make and to be defeated, thus losing some points, rather than allow the opposing side to bid and make a contract which would score them an even greater number of points.

The partnership which makes the last bid then becomes the " declaring side " and is said to have ' won ' the auction.

The story has it that, for her hospitality, Mrs. Raymond was bid to hold out her apron, into which Kidd threw gold and jewels until it was full.

From 1909, they were managed by the Port of London Authority, or PLA, which amalgamated the companies in a bid to make the docks more efficient and improve labour relations.

This is a legacy of its bid to be the state capital, which it lost to Olympia.

William had been trying to influence English politics for well over a year, letting Grand Pensionary Gaspar Fagel publish an open letter to the English people in November 1687 deploring the religious policy of James, which action had generally been interpreted as a covert bid for kingship.

In a bid to secure the loyalty of his troops and his own popularity with them and with the Roman people, he led them on a spectacular but brutal raid against the Marsi, a German tribe on the upper Ruhr river, in which he massacred much of the tribe.

Triesman resigned as chairman of the bid and the FA on 16 May 2010 after the publication of a secret recording of a conversation between the peer and a former ministerial aide, during which he claimed that Spain and Russia were planning to bribe referees at the World Cup in South Africa.

In October 2002, Lineker backed a £ 5 million bid to rescue his former club Leicester City which recently had gone into administration, describing his involvement as charity rather than an ego trip.

In addition to his pioneering work in bringing simple and effective bridge to everyday players, Goren also worked to popularize the Precision bidding method, which is one of many variants of so-called big club or strong club systems ( which use an opening bid of one club to indicate a strong hand ).

Besides the bid for an AFL club which was passed over in favour of a second Queenland team, despite several major local businesses and the Premier pioneering for a club, there is also a Hobart bid for entry into the A-League.

Oh Hell ( also known as Oh Pshaw, Up the River, Up and down the River, Bumble, Vanishing Whist, Diminishing Whist, Hell Yeah !, Peanuts, Stinky Fingers, Get Fred, Gary's Game, Diminishing Bridge, Shit On Your Neighbor, " Screw Your Neighbor ", O ' Shay, Juego de Daniel, Nah Pearse, Old Hell, German Bridge in Hong Kong, and many variations of " Oh Hell " with euphemisms and other swearwords ) is a trick-taking card game in which the object is to take exactly the number of tricks bid, unlike contract bridge and spades: taking more tricks than bid is a loss.

* Trick scoring: Each player that scores the number of tricks bid receives that many points, with the exception of correctly bidding 0, in which case the player receives a half point.

* Gentleman scoring: A player who makes the contract scores the number of tricks bid times 10, unless he / she bid zero, in which case the player scores 5.

Rosselló's unsuccessful attempt to unseat Senate President McClintock, split the New Progressive Party, a split that continued as Rosselló initiated a fourth bid for the governorship against Resident Commissioner Fortuño in an internal primary that was held March 9, 2008, and which he lost.

When Henry Tudor landed in Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1485 to make a bid for the throne, his descent from Rhys was one of the factors which enabled him to attract Welsh support ( Henry flew a ( Welsh ) dragon banner at the battle of Bosworth Field ).

Through their efforts, combined with the help of many architects in the community, a hotel development group with a history of restoring historic hotels bought the property and both structures on the property were listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but it soon was sued by another developer who had made a bid for the property also.

The third of the three statues was listed on eBay in early 2005, with a starting bid of $ 5 million.

It failed to sell and was listed again for $ 3 million ; after receiving only one bid, which turned out to be fraudulent, it has been re-listed several times for $ 1 million.

The earliest was the auction-based call system, which saw a stock exchange employee ( the Caller ) call the name of each listed security in turn while Members bid, offered, sold or bought the stock at each call.

Another reform made during this period was the " Small Order Execution System ", or " SOES ", which required market makers to buy or sell, immediately, small orders ( up to 1000 shares ) at the market-makers listed bid or ask.

In April 2009, Lincoln Financial Field was listed by U. S. Soccer's World Cup bid committee as one of 58 stadiums to be potential sites for World Cup matches in either 2018 or 2022.

It was decided to market the Jaguar business by first obtaining a separate London Stock Exchange listing to fix a price then ensuring any successful bid for all the listed shares in the whole business would be from a bidder with, or with access to, the necessary capital.

Like the Trinity Car Park it has been ear-marked for demolition and has also failed in its bid to become a listed building.

In Adelaide, in 1925, the company Myer SA Stores Ltd acquired a controlling interest in Marshall's department store and its shares continued to be listed on the Adelaide Stock Exchange until Myer Emporium Ltd made a successful takeover bid in 1966.

On October 31, 1989, Sony completed a friendly takeover bid for the rest of shares ( 51 %) of CPE, which was a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE: KPE ), and acquired 99. 3 % of the common stocks of the company.

Not knowing the extreme rarity of the game, he listed it on eBay to make a quick buck, listed at a starting bid of US $ 4. 99.

A bid to gain listed status for the house was rejected in February 2002.