" He continued, "I'm like, this kid's not outbidding me today.
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Nvidia ended up outbidding the other suitors, paying $125 per share.
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Comcast bid $39 billion for the takeover, outbidding Fox by $3.6 billion.
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Emboldened, the aspirants are outbidding each other to promise gifts to voters.
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Reuters had earlier reported that Verizon Communications was considering outbidding AT&T.
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So serious, in fact, that the state has no way of outbidding it.
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This week Labour announced an "NHS rescue plan", outbidding the Conservatives' proposed funding increase.
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This is bad news not only for the innocent civilian victims of outbidding and spoiler violence.
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Outbidding within the group may turn talks into a forum for leadership contenders to jockey for status.
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N won a bankruptcy auction to acquire Gawker for $135 million, outbidding media company Ziff Davis LLC.
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None of this justifies outbidding Marriott, which has more experience and can reap more savings from Starwood.
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The company is the front-runner for Yahoo's core business after outbidding others including AT&T, Reuters reported.
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Private-equity firms and real estate speculators with cash offers are outbidding homebuyers, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Despite the house's condition, the Chans put in a $520,000 offer, outbidding more than 20 other prospective buyers.
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Mr. Allen said they "put everything, and then some" down to seal the deal, outbidding the other buyers.
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But if YouTube is outbidding content giants like AMC and Netflix, it's obviously getting more serious about original content.
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As a couple of broke college students, outbidding the winning offer of 15 grand just wasn't in the cards.
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CNP Assurances has offered 1.6 billion Brazilian reais ($396 million) for the stake, outbidding major insurers including Axa (AXAF.
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The contract is a huge win for Amazon, which lost out in 2016, despite reportedly outbidding Twitter by $5 million.
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Soon, representatives of Aristophil were rampaging through auctions around Europe and the United States, outbidding everyone for anything of quality.
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The group has already made a takeover deal, outbidding WPP to buy Dutch online ad agency Media Monks last year.
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As far as we know, he's come a long way from outbidding Dean on a basket just to stir up shit.
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A coalition of German automakers including Audi, BMW and Daimler recently acquired HERE for around $3 billion (outbidding Uber, among others).
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Instead, Amazon won the rights to stream the movie by outbidding Sony, Universal, Fox Searchlight, and Lionsgate at this year's Sundance.
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Philadelphia-based Comcast bought Sky in September, paying roughly $39 billion after outbidding 21st Century Fox in a months-long battle.
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Previously, Cuomo lamented that states have been outbidding one another for medical supplies, which could be avoided with greater federal action.
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There have also been stories of wealthy Chinese buyers outbidding New Zealanders on suburban homes in the main city of Auckland.
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China's Ant Financial, an affiliate of Alibaba (BABA) has raised its offer for electronic payment firm MoneyGram (MGI), outbidding rival Euronet Worldwide.
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The federal government is outbidding states on orders of critical medical equipment necessary to aid patients and protect medical professionals from coronavirus.
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Microsoft spent $26.2 billion for LinkedIn in 2016, outbidding Salesforce, and last month snapped up code-sharing service GitHub for $7.5 billion.
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In recent months, Netflix and Amazon have swooped in with deep pockets and global streaming potential, outbidding veteran distributors on hot-ticket films.
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The two-earner families seem to be outbidding them for everything from goods in the supermarket to houses that are near decent schools.
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Last week, miner-trader Glencore said it had offered $2.55 billion cash for the Rio mines, outbidding an offer from Chinese-owned Yancoal.
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And by outbidding festival veterans Paramount, Fox Searchlight and Universal/Focus Features, Amazon has thrown down the gauntlet on the indie film world.
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U.S. stock market operator Nasdaq revealed last week that it would offer 152 Norwegian crowns ($17.98) per share for Oslo Bors, outbidding Euronext.
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Here's one way to make sure Amazon doesn't get control of Flipkart in India by outbidding you for a majority stake: buy it outright.
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She said the battle over secession also prompted "competitive outbidding" between right-wing politicians trying to outdo one another as defenders of Spanish sovereignty.
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Friends was a $100 million deal that gave Netflix the exclusive rights to all 10 seasons until the end of 2019, outbidding Hulu and WarnerMedia.
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CNP Assurances has offered 1.6 billion Brazilian reais ($396 million) for the stake, outbidding major insurers including Axa and MetLife, one of the sources said.
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It's unprecedented: Amazon only launched their movies business a year ago, and already they are outbidding major studio competitors for content and winning major awards.
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The retail giant purchased rights to Manchester by the Sea for $10 million at Sundance last year, outbidding the likes of Fox Searchlight and Universal.
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Don's owner is overwhelmed with applications from circus and music-hall managers, who are outbidding one another for the privilege of exhibiting the dog. Sept.
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Vonovia earlier made a $1.08 billion cash offer for Victoria Park, outbidding Starwood Capital Group and stoking the scramble for assets in Europe's hot property market.
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On September 217.28nd the company spent extravagantly to change that, outbidding 43st Century Fox (which was backed by Disney) for control of Sky, a European satellite broadcaster.
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Knorr-Bremse amassed its Haldex stake after outbidding ZF, which already holds a stake of around 20 percent, but has since dropped out of the bidding war.
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China's Ant Financial has raised its offer for electronic payment firm MoneyGram International and the deal was unanimously approved by the U.S. firm's board, outbidding rival Euronet Worldwide.
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Motiva pulled out of the sale process fearing it could be seen as overpaying for the plant after outbidding other refiners, said a person familiar with the talks.
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HNA had won tenders for the land in Kai Tak for about HK$14.2 billion in late 13, outbidding Hong Kong developers with a figure above market price.
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Buoyed by state subsidies, Chinese companies are outbidding competition with many shoddy, built-on-the-fly construction projects, and take a disproportionate role in Africa's extractive production and industries.
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The deal bringing Rock to Netflix is worth $40 million, Variety says, the company reportedly outbidding Amazon, Hulu, and HBO for the rights to the as-yet-unnamed specials.
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Despite one group outbidding him, Tepper was the only one with enough cash upfront to do the deal, which led to him paying less than what the market expected.
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Investors are outbidding other buyers by paying in cash, and some are buying houses before they&aposve even been put on the public market, according to Casselman and Dougherty.
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Comcast and NBC shocked the television and sports worlds by outbidding their closest competitor — Fox Sports — by nearly a billion dollars, offering $221 billion for four Olympics ending in 2100.
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Euronet, which operates services like Epay, HiFix and XE, is offering to pay $15.20 per share for Nasdaq-listed MoneyGram, thus outbidding Ant Financial, which proposed $13.25 for its deal.
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The maker of Knorr soup and Dove soap announced the deal on Friday, hours after Reuters reported that KKR had entered exclusive talks to buy the shrinking business after outbidding rivals.
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The different actors are outbidding one another for attention and funding, and for more than half a century the public has been told that the cure is just around the corner.
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On Tuesday, he said that the state had ordered more from China but that it was "impossible" to get many more because of a slow federal response — and FEMA's outbidding states.
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Comcast – The NBCUniversal and CNBC parent said it has bought more than 23 percent of the shares of Britain's Sky in the marketplace, after outbidding 21st Century Fox for the broadcaster.
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AS, the world's top steelmaker, and Italian processor Marcegaglia have offered 403 billion euros ($1.72 billion) to buy Italy's troubled Ilva steel plant, outbidding a rival consortium, three sources said on Friday.
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However, Jason Craig, general manager of marketing and trading at the country's largest grain exporter, Western Australia-based CBH Group, said east-coast buyers were pushing up prices and outbidding overseas importers.
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CIC agreed to buy Logicor, Blackstone's European logistics business for 12.25 billion euros, outbidding an Asian private group and a state investor in the region's biggest private equity real estate deal, sources said.
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Hulu recently stepped up its challenge of Netflix by outbidding it for the popular NBC series This Is Us, and acquiring the rights to 30 Rock, which stopped streaming on Netflix last month.
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The Bentonville, Arkansas-based company bought a 211 percent stake in Flipkart for $53 billion in May as part of its longer-term strategy to bulk up its online business, outbidding e-commerce giant Amazon.
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Mainland Chinese companies have piled into Hong Kong's real estate market over the past few years, outbidding some of the territory's most powerful developers, many of who have been unwilling to compete with spiralling prices.
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To ensure his chances of outbidding proposals to liquidate the chain, Lampert last week agreed to assume more than $600 million in additional liabilities that Sears has incurred since filing for bankruptcy protection last October.
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The federal government is outbidding states on orders of critical medical equipment necessary to aid patients and protect medical professionals from coronavirus, even though President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted states get their own supplies.
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When an economy is running at close to full tilt, so that firms are borrowing and investing as much as banks are willing to lend, a government can only borrow by outbidding private firms for financing.
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AMS, best known for supplying Apple with sensors for its latest iPhones, this month offered 38.50 euros per share for the leader in automotive lighting, outbidding private equity investors Bain Capital and Carlyle Group by 10%.
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Nestlé has been the subject of public scrutiny since the company purchased a well in September by outbidding the small Ontario township of Centre Wellington, which wanted to secure a publicly-owned source of water for itself.
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Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a Republican, a day earlier that the federal government was outbidding states for critical supplies, Trump acknowledged such occurrences but contended that "smart" states call and tell the government to withdraw its bid.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Univision Holdings Inc won a bankruptcy auction on Tuesday to acquire U.S. internet publisher Gawker Media LLC for $135 million, outbidding media company Ziff Davis LLC, which had made an initial offer of $90 million.
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Read: Ethnic Outbidding for White People: A Story About Populism in Canada Versus the United States Subscribe: The Interpreter newsletter In France, Jerry Lewis, who died this week at 91, was regarded as an intellectual and artist giant.
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LONDON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Precious metals refiner Asahi has won an auction for the assets of bankrupt Miami-based refiner Republic Metals Corporation (RMC), outbidding its Swiss rival Valcambi, three sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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Australian supplement makers Swisse Wellness and Blackmores are also popular picks with middle-class Chinese consumers, wrote Euromonitor analysts in Sydney; so popular that in 2015 China's Biostime acquired Swisse Wellness for 1.67 billion Australian dollars ($1.21 billion), outbidding two other Chinese firms.
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HBO achieved enviable operating-profit margins of 30-40% ($2.2bn on $6.3bn of revenue in 2017), and was comparatively restrained in its pursuit of high-profile shows (Netflix committed $133m in outbidding HBO for "House of Cards", and was ridiculed for it).
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With nine partners and 45 private equity executives in Europe, the firm has been a consistent investor in the region, often outbidding rivals in competitive auctions such as the 2017 sale of Unilever's spreads business, which KKR won for 6.83 billion euros.
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The approval came more than four years after Hyundai Motor Group, South Korea's second-largest conglomerate, offered to purchase the site with $10 billion in 2014, more than triple its market price, outbidding Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and sparking a stock sell-off.
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Instead, eager buyers are outbidding each other for sour barrels, even as higher-quality light crude sits unsold, creating dramatic changes in the typical cargo movements and giving sellers of Russian, Angolan and sulfur-rich U.S. oil an edge over those with lighter oil.
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Inter-rebel competition sometimes takes the form of outbidding, whereby rebel groups ratchet up the intensity and brutality of their attacks to bolster their credentials as the most committed and capable champions of the rebel cause, and thus maximize shares of recruits, popular support, and external aid.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Mainland Chinese companies have piled into Hong Kong property in 2015-2016, outbidding some of the territory's most powerful developers to gobble up 29 percent of land sold for development in one of the world's most expensive real estate markets, according to new industry figures.
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At a time when advances for a first novel were, on average, less than $10,19703, Bantam Books broke the $1 million barrier in 1985 for the rights to Ms. Beauman's story, outbidding several prominent publishers and declaring her in the same league as genre heavyweights like Judith Krantz and Sidney Sheldon.
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By outbidding Sky and BT, Britain's two largest sports broadcasters, for Spanish and Italian soccer rights that the two companies had previously owned, the 44-year-old entrepreneur was entering uncharted territory, according to Mike Darcey, who negotiated several billion dollars' worth of sports contracts for Sky when he was its chief operating officer.
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But in recent years, the division has failed to meet targets after encountering stiff competition from JPMorgan Chase & Co for premium card customers and after outbidding American Express for the card business of retailer Costco Bird said in a memo to employees that the reorganization was designed to "harmonize" the operations of Citigroup's global consumer banking businesses.
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The move was the latest example of online streaming services taking aim at traditional studios by outbidding them on major film deals – something that Netflix has also recently done with the $7 million deal for Paul Rudd's "The Fundamentals of Caring" and Ellen Page's "Tallulah," both of which have been in heavy rotation in the featured position at the top of Netflix's user interface.
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But his bluster inevitably kindles suspicions that the League and the M5S, neither of which is committed to euro membership, may be plotting to extricate Italy from the shared currency, if not the EU. A third possible explanation is that Mr Di Maio, whose party is nominally the senior partner in the coalition government, is trying to regain the initiative by outbidding Mr Salvini in the extravagance of his threats and demands.
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When it's not outbidding Fox to buy broadcasters in the UK, the company has been focusing on how it can build out a more central role for itself in the connected home, as a way to help differentiate itself from the rest of the pack of media and broadband providers in its home market of the US. Comcast has launched voice-controls for connected home services using its X1 Voice Remote, smart home automation, and even an early partnership with Tile.
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In July 2019, Amazon, through their subsidiary Twitch Interactive, acquired Bebo for US$25 million after outbidding Discord.
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In 2018, Network 10 bought the rights to air the Melbourne Cup from 2019 to 2023 for $100 million, outbidding former broadcaster Seven Network.
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The Hollywood Reporter. for $250,000, outbidding Fox Searchlight Pictures, October Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Lakeshore Entertainment.Cox, Dan (April 14, 1998). "D'Works courts 'Beauty' spec". Variety.
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Gaz Métro purchased CVPS for $472 million, outbidding another Canadian company who sought CVPS, Fortis Inc.The New York Times: "Gaz Metro Bests Fortis to Buy Vermont Utility", July 12, 2011.
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Upon acceptance of the settlement, Detroit entrepreneur Marion Ilitch exercised her option to purchase Motor City Casino, outbidding other partners.Ilitch outbids partners for Motor City Casino . The Michigan Daily. Retrieved on September 18, 2007.
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Telekom Srbija acquired a 65% controlling stake in Telekom Srpske for 646 million euros in 2006. outbidding Telekom Austria with an offer of 467 million euros. Telekom Srbija also broadcast cable channel Arena Sport 1,2,3 and 4.
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Channel 4 offered £25 million for the show outbidding the £15 million offered by the BBC. In January 2017 the BBC waived its rights to keep the programme off the air until 2018, and wished the programme "well for the future".
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Donors receive a Producer credit in the film for a minimum of US$1.00 (with no maximum). Producers get listed in order of amount donated, which has led to the general public outbidding many of the celebrity producers to get a top billing.
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In 1998, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. acquired ITT Sheraton, outbidding Hilton. Under Starwood's leadership, Sheraton began renovating many hotels and expanding the brand's footprint. Starwood also began marketing The Luxury Collection as a completely separate brand, even though it contained a large number of hotels still named Sheraton.
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This put the stock price at $15 per share, above the forecasted range of $11.50 to $13.50. The company’s market capitalization was $776.5 million at the time of the IPO. In June 2009, EMC Corporation announced their intention to acquire Data Domain Corp. for $2.4B, outbidding NetApp’s earlier offer.
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Black took a controlling interest by outbidding two other conglomerates, Zapata Corporation and Textron. After the suicide of Black in 1975, the company was acquired by Seymour Milstein and Paul Milstein. In 1980, Chiquita was an official sponsor of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
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The maximum opening bid under standard bidding is two marks, or "84", with each successive bid being one additional mark. Each player outbidding the opening maximum bid would result in a bid of 5 marks. There are many variations and exceptions to standard bidding, which are covered in Special Contracts, below.
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Safari was founded in the 1980s by Mat Perlot and Curt Lawler, former employees of Beaver Motorcoach Corporation. The company started building diesel- and gas-powered Class A motorhomes. Safari bought Beaver in 1994 for $7.6 million after outbidding Country Coach. In 2002, Monaco Coach purchased Safari and Beaver brand names.
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GMTV won the licence for the breakfast Channel 3 franchise from 1993, outbidding the previous licence holder, TV-am, in the 1991 franchise round for £34 million.Winners and Losers. The Times, Thursday, 17 October 1991; pg. 4 The station was backed by LWT, STV, Disney, and the Guardian Media Group.
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A former Russian hostage Abdurakhman Adukhov told the BBC that Barayev told him it was actually Osama bin Laden who paid him $30m for the atrocity, outbidding the ransom offer of $10m.Britons killed 'by Bin Laden ally', BBC News, 18 November 2001 Barayev himself denied that his group kidnapped and killed the foreigners.
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Originally named , Fukuda Denshi, a medical electric instrument manufacturer, won the naming rights after outbidding several other candidates. The location is a former Kawasaki Steel factory site. The first international match was held on 30 May 2009, as the men's national teams of Belgium and Chile played out a 1-1 draw.
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The Council of Canadians, a social action organization, launched a boycott in September 2016 in response to the company outbidding a small town aiming to secure a long-term water supply through a local well, stressing the need for bottled water industry reform as the country battles drought and depletion of ground water reserves.
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Didius Julianus gained power as proconsul of Africa, succeeding Pertinax in that position. Julianus was not just given the position of emperor after Pertinax's death. He had competition in Pertinax's father-in-law, Sulpicianus. The only way that Julianus gained the Senate's favor was by outbidding Sulpicianus for the amount he would pay the troops.
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After the wedding, Petruchio takes Katherina to his home against her will. Once they are gone, Gremio and Tranio (disguised as Lucentio) formally bid for Bianca, with Tranio easily outbidding Gremio. However, in his zeal to win he promises much more than Lucentio actually possesses. When Baptista determines that once Lucentio's father confirms the dowry, Bianca and Tranio (i.e.
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It took two years and several microfilm teams from the Library of Congress to film the 50,000 pages. Lafayette's papers are now in the Cornell University Library. Meanwhile, Chambrun purchased a sword used in battle by Lafayette in 1976, outbidding the Smithsonian Institution. Chambrun served as the honorary president of the Sons of the American Revolution in France.
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Battle of Acheloos or AnchialosAccording to Anchialos, Madrid Skylitzes. By 917, Simeon was preparing for yet another war against Byzantium. He attempted to conclude an anti-Byzantine union with the Pechenegs, but his envoys could not match the financial resources of the Byzantines, who succeeded in outbidding them.Runciman, A history of the First Bulgarian Empire, p. 159.
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During his sabbatical from Princeton in 2001, with Brian Biles, Kai co-founded Data Domain Corporation which built the first commercial deduplication storage system, opening up a new billion-dollar market. In June 2009, EMC Corporation acquired Data Domain for $2.4 billion, outbidding NetApp's previous offer."EMC Tops NetApp’s Bid for Data Domain." 1 June 2009.
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The Stable Gallery was established there, and a number of artists displayed their pictures. Irish musician Enya bought the castle in 1997 for €3.8 million, reportedly outbidding Michael Flatley, who also viewed the house. Based on her interest in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, Enya renamed the castle "Manderley" for the fictional house that plays a central role in the 1938 novel.
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In 1855, Miller changed its name to Miller Brewing Company, Inc. The enterprise remained in the family until 1966. In 1966, the conglomerate W. R. Grace and Company bought Miller from Lorraine John Mulberger (Frederick Miller's granddaughter, who objected to alcohol) and her family. In 1969, Philip Morris (now Altria) bought Miller from W. R. Grace for $130 million, outbidding PepsiCo.
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The two companies completed the transaction on November 28, 2008. Sprint became the owner of Clearwire, after outbidding Dish Network for the company. On October 8, 2008, Sprint Nextel launched WiMAX in Baltimore and showed off several new laptops that will have embedded WiMAX chips. They announced that Sprint will be offering dual-mode 3G/4G products by the end of the year.
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Montana was then itself taken over by the British firm Allied Domecq in 2001 after eventually outbidding Lion Nathan, and four years later Allied Domecq was bought by Pernod Ricard in 2005. In 2010, Pernod Ricard sold off several of its brands, including Lindauer and Corbans Wines, to a partnership formed between Lion and Indevin, another large New Zealand wine operator.
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Gosman built the Maison de L'Amitié mansion on the property. On July 30, 1999, the house was put in the name of his wife, Linda C. Gosman. After Abe Gosman filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in 2003, the property went up for auction in 2004. On January 7, 2005, entrepreneur Donald Trump bought the home for $41.35 million outbidding Jeffrey Epstein.
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Tennis Channel's senior vice president of distribution Randy Brown was a co-founder of the group, alongside The American Channel's Doron Gorshein. Outbidding ESPN by double, Tennis Channel acquired cable rights to the French Open in 2006. The network sub- licensed approximately half of the package to ESPN, at a lower cost than ESPN would have paid for the entire tournament.Dell, Donald and John Boswell.
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WildEarth Guardians started as an environmental group calling itself Forest Guardians in 1989 to fight logging on New Mexico's Elk Mountain. Soon Forest Guardians took on other projects such as the public lands livestock grazing industry. They were able to buy leases for public land by outbidding local ranchers. Then they restored the landscape by keeping cattle out, restoring native plants, and removing non-native plants.
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Mazepin also sought to diversify Sibur's revenue sources, signing a MOU on gas processing with Sibneft in 2003. In 2004, Mazepin created his own company in the sector after leaving Sibur. Constructive Bureau, a company controlled by Mazepin, acquired a majority stake in Kirovo-Chepetsk Chemicals Plant in a public auction, outbidding Gazprom. Mazepin became chairman of the board of the plant in 2005.
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The company name was changed to LDDS WorldCom in 1995, and relocated to Clinton, Mississippi. The company grew rapidly in the 1990s, after completing several mergers and acquisitions. Worldcom's first major acquisition was in 1992 with the $720 million acquisition of Advanced Telecommunications Corporation, outbidding larger rivals Sprint Corporation and AT&T; to secure the deal, making Worldcom a larger player in the telecoms market. Other acquisitions included: Metromedia Communication Corp.
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The original plans were for the station to have a frequency of 93.5. The unbuilt construction permit was held by Alma Corporation, who sold the station to MidNation Media for $25,000, outbidding Randy Michaels’ Radioactive LLC by $2,000 in the 2006 FCC auction. Subsequently, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said that it was selling the construction permit to MidNation for $60,000. From that point on, the deal was closed.
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By 1973, Clarksons carried 1.1 million holidaymakers—almost 1968's whole industry total—and contracted over 70% of Court Line's charter capacity. Its meteoric rise was entirely volume-based. It generated the required volumes by ruthlessly undercutting rivals and outbidding them to win the race for securing accommodation in popular overseas holiday resorts, especially in Spain.High Risk: The Politics of the Air, Thomson, A., Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1990, pp.
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On their final CBS telecast together (the NFC Championship Game on January 23, 1994), Madden told Summerall that while CBS may no longer have the NFL (for the time being, as CBS would eventually regain NFL rights in 1998 by outbidding NBC for the rights to AFC telecasts), at least they have the memories. On ABC's final Monday Night Football telecast in 2005, Madden used a similar choice of words.
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To Groucho's frustration, Chico keeps outbidding everyone, even himself. During the auction, Mrs. Potter announces that her necklace has been stolen and offers a thousand dollar reward, whereupon Chico offers two thousand. Unbeknownst to anyone except the thieves and to Harpo (who intercepted the map drawn by the villains while hiding under their hotel room bed) the jewellery's hiding place is a hollow tree stump adjacent to where the land auction takes place.
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So vies for Yu-shang's services with Chiu Mo-kei, a high- ranking government official. By outbidding Chiu, So inadvertently foils Yu- shang's attempt to assassinate Chiu to avenge her father, who was murdered by Chiu. Yu-shang agrees to marry So if he can win the title of "Martial Arts Champion" (武狀元). To win Yu-shang's hand-in-marriage, So enters the imperial martial arts contest to win the championship title.
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In 1994, the Fox network surprised NFL fans by outbidding CBS for the NFC broadcast package. One of the network's first moves was to hire Summerall and Madden as its lead announcing team. While at Fox the pair called Super Bowls XXXI, XXXIII, and XXXVI together. The long-time partnership ended after Super Bowl XXXVI in early 2002, as Summerall had announced he would be retiring from announcing and Madden's contract had expired.
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Phoenix Finance bought some of the remains of Prost Grand Prix, outbidding Paul Stoddart of Minardi, shortly before the 2002 Australian Grand Prix. The team hoped to enter Formula One at the next round, the Malaysian Grand Prix. The team planned to use the 2001-spec Prost AP04 chassis with Hart designed Arrows V10 engines from 1998. Tom Walkinshaw boss of the Arrows team had planned to give the new team assistance.
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In 2002, Arby's returned to operating restaurants by purchasing the second largest Arby's franchisee, Sybra Inc., with 293 locations out of bankruptcy outbidding RTM so as to prevent RTM from becoming too large. RTM was purchased by Arby's on July 25, 2005. In November 2002, Access Now filed a lawsuit against RTM, then a franchise of Triarc, that some 800 of their stores did not comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).
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The case was later cited as precedent for the principle that the government may provide paleontological evidence if a country of origin is obscured. The case also brought about a discussion in American media regarding the effect of "dinosaur smuggling". In 2015, American actor Nicolas Cage returned a Tyrannosaurus bataar skull he had purchased in 2007 (after outbidding Leonardo DiCaprio). The skull was purchased from a gallery which has previously sold fossils smuggled by Prokopi.
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Under the direction of Roy Vermus as CEO beginning in 2006, Psagot grew to become Israel's largest investment firm through a series of strategic fund acquisitions. It acquired a provident fund managing NIS20 billion in assets from Prisma Investment House Ltd. in 2009 and made its first major pension fund acquisition in 2010 after outbidding a competitor for control of the Histadrut Leumit fund, which managed NIS6 billion in assets. In addition, Vermus shut down Psagot's underwriting unit.
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By eventually outbidding the South African company, Newmont became the world's largest gold producer, with an annual production in excess of 8 million ounces. In 2007, the company eliminated its 1.5 million ounce legacy hedge book to make Newmont the world's largest unhedged gold producer. The following year, Newmont acquired Miramar Mining Corporation and its Hope Bay deposit in the Canadian Arctic. In late 2008, Newmont moved its headquarters from Denver to the suburb of Greenwood Village, Colorado.
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Along with hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, Valeant made a bid to acquire Allergan; however, in November 2014, Allergan announced that it would be acquired by Actavis in a $66 billion transaction. Valeant and Pershing Square were subsequently accused of insider trading prior to their Allergan bid, and eventually settled the case in 2017. On April 1, 2015, Valeant completed the purchase of gastrointestinal treatment drug developer Salix Pharmaceuticals for $14.5 billion after outbidding Endo Pharmaceuticals.
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Homer becomes addicted to a reality TV show called Storage Battles and decides to participate in a storage unit auction as a result. He wins the storage unit with $1000, outbidding several townspeople and elephant Stampy. The family goes through its contents to find it is full of women's clothes and muscleman magazines belonging to Grampa Simpson. Marge comes to the conclusion that Grampa is a closeted homosexual who was forced to be heterosexual through most of his life.
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In 1935, Walt Disney expressed interest in doing an adaptation of Peter Pan as his second film following Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. However, the live-action film rights were held by Paramount Pictures. The copyright owner, the Hospital for Sick Children in London, unsuccessfully offered to have Disney make an agreement with Paramount. However, in January 1939, Disney obtained the animation rights to the play by outbidding Fleischer Studios, which was also developing animated feature films.
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Though the Sable was branded and marketed as a Kia, it retained the Mercury badges and emblem. Ford lost their Kia interest to Hyundai in 1998 during the Asian financial crisis. Kia had declared bankruptcy in 1997; in 1998, Hyundai Motor Company acquired 51% of the company, outbidding Ford which had owned an interest in Kia Motors since 1986. After subsequent divestments, Hyundai Motor Company owns less than 50% of the company but remains Kia's largest stakeholder.
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Subsequently, Tata submitted an improved bid at £5.00 per share, followed by an improved bid from CSN at £5.15 per share which was accepted by the board of Corus on 11 December 2007. On 19 December 2006 the UK body, the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers announced a close date for bidding of 30 January 2007. On 30/31 January an auction was held by the Panel for Corus's shares, with Tata outbidding CSN at £6.08 vs £6.03 per share.
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Pat Fenlon attempted to strengthen the defence by signing goalkeeper Ben Williams and defenders James McPake and Tim Clancy. Later in the window, Fenlon complained that other Scottish clubs, particularly the relaunched Rangers, were outbidding Hibs for players. Fenlon was able to sign veteran Finnish striker Shefki Kuqi to provide an experienced target man. Towards the end of the window, Fenlon commented that he was looking for more midfielders, as he was left without cover during a match against St Mirren.
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On New Year's Day 2012, TV2 introduced a new look graphics package with a new theme song for the network. At the same time, the TV2 digital on-screen graphic logo moved from the top right hand corner of the screen to the bottom right hand corner of the screen, for the first time since 2003. From 19 August 2013, TV2 reacquired broadcast rights for Home and Away, after outbidding TV3. On 1 October 2016, the channel was renamed TVNZ 2.
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However, USA Broadcasting put its stations up for sale in late 2000. The Walt Disney Company almost bought the stations (had Disney bought WHSP, it would have created a duopoly with ABC O&O; WPVI-TV channel 6), but Univision Communications wound up outbidding them for the broadcast group in 2001. Accordingly, on January 14, 2002, WHSP affiliated with the Univision network and changed its call sign to WUVP. The move gave Univision its first full- power station in the Philadelphia area.
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On April 16, 2010, Judge Stuart M. Bernstein of the U.S Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan granted approval to Alclear LLC to purchase the CLEAR assets after outbidding rival Henry Inc. On May 3, 2010, Verified Identity Pass was purchased by Alclear LLC. Alclear LLC has brought Clear back and honored the time left on all Clear's original customers whose membership may have been terminated before the end of their contracts. In November 2010, Clear re- opened in Denver and Orlando airports.
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Seadrill was incorporated as a Bermuda company on May 10, 2005 by John Fredriksen, a Norwegian-born shipping tycoon, and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange in November 2005. In July 2005, the company acquired jack up rigs from Odfjell Drilling. In September 2006, the company acquired a controlling share of Smedvig by outbidding Noble Corporation. In 2007, the company acquired Eastern Drilling. In May 2010, the company outbid Ensco (now Valaris plc) for Scorpion Offshore, valuing the company at $567 million.
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It also houses the headquarters of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, as well as the headquarters for many other regional financial institutions. Despite its small size, Basseterre played host to Carifesta VII (the Caribbean Festival of Arts) in 2000, outbidding rivals many times its size. The city was able to outbid the United States of America to host matches for the 2007 World Cricket Cup. The Warner Park Sporting Complex was the site of the allocated first round matches of the tournament.
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"In fact, the first publicity we got said we were axed." In late 1996, while facing budget cuts, the ABC announced the cancellation of Good News Week, but later reversed the decision. The series grew in popularity and by 1997 was attracting an average of 750,000 viewers nationally, occasionally beating commercial stations in the ratings. In 1999, Network Ten purchased the rights to Good News Week in a reported $6 million deal after outbidding the Seven Network, the Nine Network and the ABC.
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Bidding was open to international firms for the 82 billion rupee project. China's Harbin Electric Company was announced as the lowest evaluated bidder for the project on October 2, 2015, having offered a levellised electricity cost of 7.973 cents per unit, outbidding the Turkish conglomerate Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş. and GE Consortium which both stood in second with 8.185 cents per unit tariff, followed by China Machinery Eng Co (CMEC) & SEFC at 8.304 cents, and Hyundai Engineering at 8.332 cents per unit.
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KUGN lost the broadcast rights to Duck sports in 1987, when the University of Oregon athletic department set up its own in-house radio network. The university put the network's flagship status up for bidding, and local rival KPNW won out over KUGN.Register Guard, December 12, 1989 During that time, KUGN became the flagship station for the Oregon State Beavers football radio network, outbidding Portland station KEX-AM.Register Guard, May 3, 1987 Eight years later, KUGN regained the broadcast rights to Duck sports.
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Senat will Rätsel um verschwundene Masken klären, rbb24, 4 April 2020 As a result, Berlin opposition member Burkard Dregger accused the Berlin senate of deception for the purpose of covering up their failure to provide the masks. Politico Europe reported that "the Berliners are taking a page straight out of the Trump playbook and not letting facts get in the way of a good story." German officials reported that U.S. buyers were paying far above the market price and were outbidding European buyers for masks.
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Competition for positions within the government grew fierce, leading to bribery and corruption. Ottoman and Habsburg sources accuse Murad himself of accepting enormous bribes, including 20,000 ducats from a statesman in exchange for the governorship of Tripoli and Tunisia, thus outbidding a rival who had tried bribing the Grand Vizier. During his period, excessive inflation was experienced, the value of silver money was constantly played, food prices increased. 400 dirhams should be cut from 600 dirhams of silver, while 800 was cut, which meant 100 percent inflation.
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In March 2010, Teva acquired German-based company Ratiopharm in a deal worth almost $5 billion, significantly expanding its European coverage. In October 2010, Teva entered a licensing agreement with BioTime to develop and market BioTime's OpRegen for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration, an effort that in 2013 received $1.5 billion in funding from Israel's Office of the Chief Scientist. In May 2011, Teva announced it would purchase Cephalon for US$6.8 billion. In January 2014, Teva acquired NuPathe, after outbidding Endo, for $144 million.
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Dealers in 1994 sold the Sephia and a few years later the United States segment expanded their line with the Sportage. Over one hundred Kia dealerships existed across thirty states by 1995, selling a record 24,740 automobiles. Kia declared bankruptcy in 1997, during the Asian financial crisis, and in 1998 reached an agreement with Hyundai Motor Company to diversify by exchanging ownership between the two companies. Hyundai Motor Company acquired 51% of the company, outbidding Ford Motor Company, which had owned an interest in Kia Motors since 1986.
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Thales Alenia Space subcontract performances to Astrium GmbH and security to Thales Communications. In February 2012, an additional order of eight satellites was awarded to OHB Systems for €250 million (US$327 million), after outbidding EADS Astrium tender offer. Thus bringing the total to 22 FOC satellites. On 7 May 2014, the first two FOC satellites landed in Guyana for their joint launch planned in summer Originally planned for launch during 2013, problems tooling and establishing the production line for assembly led to a delay of a year in serial production of Galileo satellites.
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Due to a high level of interest from private equity buyers, the IPO was postponed. Candover bought 60% of the company in an auction, outbidding the French PAI Partners and leaving the rest 30% to the founder and 10% to Permira. Based on financial data, the group was valued at 1.7 billion euros. In May 2008, when the full extend of the crisis had not yet hit, rumours circulated indicating Candover was eyeing a second IPO for the business which was seeing profits of EUR 158m on a EUR 933m turnover (2007).
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Events surrounding the killings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and Michael Brown, and widespread ensuing protests against racism and police brutality, also informed moments in the book. Unsure whether publishers would be interested in the Black Lives Matter-inspired material, Thomas reached out to literary agent Brooks Sherman on Twitter in June 2015 to ask for advice. In February 2016, HarperCollins' imprint Balzer + Bray bought the rights to the novel in an auction, outbidding 13 other publishing houses, and signed a two-book deal with Thomas. Fox 2000 optioned the film rights the following month.
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However, inner quarrels hindered the empire to pursue further conquests, and in 1073, Henry IV as well as his Saxon opponents offered alliances to the Luticians outbidding each other with favourable conditions and benefits. As a result, the Luticians allied with neither party, but instead started another civil war over which alliance they should conclude. In addition, Boleslaw II of Poland also canvassed the Luticians for joining an anti-German coalition with Denmark. As a consequence, Lutician military power was completely exhausted in the course of the 11th century.
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Channel 56 would return to the air in 2000 as Daystar-owned religious station KWDK. By 1980, the Seattle–Tacoma market had become large enough that it could now sustain another VHF commercial television station. Kelly Broadcasting, owners of KCRA- TV in its home city of Sacramento, California, purchased KCPQ from the Clover Park School District for $6.25 million, outbidding Roadrunner Television from Tucson, Arizona, which then owned KZAZ in Tucson (the current-day KMSB, a fellow Fox affiliate). Channel 13 temporarily went silent on February 28, 1980 to facilitate changes in studio facilities and the transmitter.
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On October 25, 2006, Scott Boras was announced as Matsuzaka's agent to represent him in any contract dealings in the Major Leagues. On November 2, Matsuzaka was officially granted permission by the Lions to pursue a career in Major League Baseball via the posting system. On November 14, the Boston Red Sox won the bidding rights to Matsuzaka with a bid of $51,111,111.11, outbidding the Texas Rangers, New York Mets, and New York Yankees. The enormous figure — two to three times the Lions' payroll — astounded both Japanese and American baseball executives. The Red Sox had 30 days to sign Matsuzaka to a contract.
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Match of the Day, the BBC's long-running football programme, was in its eighth year of terrestrial Premier League coverage and about to start a record ninth in 2000. Bidding for a further three seasons to the Premier League panel, the broadcaster went in as favourites to retain the exclusive highlights package. The contract was however awarded to rival network ITV at the last possible moment, outbidding their rivals by £60 million and securing the rights from the start of the 2001–02 league season at a reported cost of £183 million. This meant that they were splashing out roughly £1.3m per show.
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Stellone was signed by Serie B runner-up Torino in co-ownership deal in August 2005, who were forced to remain at Serie B due to financial difficulty. Now partnered with Enrico Fantini and Roberto Muzzi in attack, Stellone failed to replicate his prolific performances at Geona, scoring 7 goals in 31 appearances, but Torino still bought him outright, outbidding Genoa. Despite Stellone's struggle to find the back of the net consistently, Torino still managed to obtain Serie A promotion that season. With Torino in Serie A the following season, he alternated playing as a starter and as a substitute for the club.
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On July 1, 1997 Davivienda became Banco Davivienda S.A. and in May 2006 it merged with Banco Superior. In 2006, it purchased Granbanco S.A - Bancafé from the Colombian government for US$2.2 billion, outbidding Banco de Bogotá by US$327 million. The acquisition allowed Davivienda to expand its business in the corporate and agricultural markets. Davivienda has used the "Casita Roja" (small red house) as a national and international logo since 1973. In 1994, the company introduced the «su dinero puede estar en el lugar equivocado» (your money may be in the wrong place) tag line as part of its advertising campaigns.
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The post-war brick-and-cinder towers, known as Buildings 1 and 2, had been considered for renovation, but the agency balked at the approximately $16 million price tag. The cost to demolish the buildings, which together have 143 apartments, was estimated at only about $2 million. The THA would be financing the demolition through HOPE VI federal funding. In October 2019, the THA and the Troy Local Development Corporation announced the selection of Pennrose, LLC, a Philadelphia-based affordable housing developer to redevelop the site, outbidding five other firms that submitted bids in June 2019.
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Riahi swiftly achieved notoriety among French dealers due to regularly outbidding them on the finest pieces at auction. Among the master craftsmen represented in the collection were André Charles Boulle, the ébénistes Bernard II van Risamburgh and Martin Carlin; and carpets and tapestry from the Savonnerie and Gobelins manufactories. Some of his individual pieces included wall brackets from Marie Antoinette's bedroom and a cabinet made for the Comtesse de Provence. 59 pieces from the collection, including pieces with royal provenances, were purchased in 2000 by Christie's and estimated to raise 25 million dollars when auctioned off.
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In turn, politicians will refrain from providing public goods because it will not serve them well electorally to provide services to people not belonging to their ethnic group. In democratizing societies, this could lead to ethnic outbidding and lead to extreme politicians pushing out moderate co-ethnics. Patronage politics and ethnic politics eventually reinforce each other, leading to what Chandra terms a "patronage democracy". The existence of patronage networks between local politicians and ethnic groups make it easier for politicians to mobilize ethnic groups and instigate ethnic violence for electoral gain since the neighborhood or city is already polarized along ethnic lines.
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Bomanji gave generously to charities which supported ex-servicemen and war widows following the First World War, and included Field Marshal Douglas Haig (1861-1928), Queen Victoria's granddaughter, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone amongst his social circle. He also kissed Greta Garbo's forehead after outbidding everyone for charity. In 1892-93, he established Olympia Race Course in Matheran, Maharashtra. In 1906, he bought lease of 161 (formerly 61) Holland Park Avenue for Eugen Sandow (1867-1925), a Victorian strongman who was colossally famous in his day and possessed what was deemed to be the most perfect male body.
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On March 23, 1999, the Dallas Cowboys signed him as a free agent after outbidding other teams. After Michael Irvin suffered a career-ending injury in the fourth game of the season, Ismail became the team's leading wide receiver, recording a career-high 1,097 yards and six touchdowns. In 2000, he missed the last six games after tearing the ACL in his right knee against the Philadelphia Eagles, during the tenth game of the season, finishing with only 350 receiving yards. In 2001, he missed two games after spraining the MCL in the same injured knee against the San Diego Chargers.
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Burns in his first year back with NBC in 2015 After ESPN lost its rights to broadcasting NASCAR races, Burns returned to NBC (who replaced TNT and ESPN after outbidding both networks for the TV coverage) and became one of four pit reporters for the network's Cup and Xfinity Series (previously Nationwide) events, along with Mike Massaro (who also moved over from ESPN), Marty Snider (who also was a NASCAR on NBC pit reporter with Burns from 2001 to 2006), and Kelli Stavast. Burns and Massaro were signed by NBC to join the broadcast team on November 6, 2014.
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Strauss wrote articles appearing in the Indianapolis News and Rockville Tribune that described her experiences in rural Parke County and urged others to help preserve its natural landscape. She was also a donor to the park acquisition fund. The Turkey Run Commission merged with the State Parks Memorial Commission of the Indiana Historical Commission with the hope of acquiring the Turkey Run property, but the group failed in its first attempt to buy land for the new state park system. The Hoosier Veneer Company of Indianapolis, Indiana, acquired Turkey Run at public auction for $30,200 on May 18, 1916, outbidding the state parks commission by $100.
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Alinta was acquired on 31 August 2007 by a consortium comprising Singapore Power International (SPI), the largest utility company in Singapore, and Australia's second-largest investment bank, Babcock & Brown Infrastructure (BBI) and Babcock & Brown Power (BBP) with a bid of A$13.9 billion, outbidding a bid by Macquarie Bank. After acquisition, the Alinta businesses were split up. The majority of eastern assets were transferred to Alinta LGA, an Alinta subsidiary, which on 4 August 2008 changed its name to Jemena.About Our New Brand, Jemena company Later, ownership of Jemena passed to Singapore Power International, and its name was changed to SPI (Australia) Assets Pty Ltd.
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The station, using the call sign WEHP, signed on the air November 9, 2012, stunting with songs including the word "Happy"; at 12p.m. on November 16, 2012, it formally launched its contemporary hit radio format under the branding of "Happi 92.7". The station was originally owned by Rick Rambaldo'a Erie Radio Company; the construction permit had been acquired, under the name First Channel Communications, for $2,068,000 in a May 2011 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) auction, outbidding an entity affiliated with Connoisseur Media. Rambaldo had previously a group of Erie radio stations that was sold to NextMedia in 1999, and subsequently acquired by Connoisseur Media and then iHeartMedia.
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Faced with the loss of one-third of its business (Marvel's market share) Diamond reacted by outbidding Capital City for exclusive deals with Marvel's main rival DC Comics; and despite intense efforts on the part of Davis and Griepp,Rozanski, Chuck. "Tales From the Database: Diamond Ended Up With 50% of the Comics Market," Mile High Comics (2004). Dark Horse Comics and Image Comics as well. Capital City reacted by suing Marvel for the loss of their business, resulting in a settlement allowing them to continue distributing Marvel product until October 1995"Marvel goes exclusive, Capital sues Marvel, Marvel settles with Capital, Marvel buys Skybox, DC/Diamond announcement expected," The Comics Journal #175 (March 1995), pp. 9-10.
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Under Scripps, KNXV began to purchase more recent sitcoms, often outbidding KPHO for strong shows. The station also became the over-the-air broadcaster of the Suns again; it lost the rights to televise the team's games to KUTP (channel 45) in 1988. After KPHO turned down an offer to affiliate with the fledgling Fox network, it approached KNXV. After Scripps promised to launch a news department, KNXV joined Fox at the network's inception on October 6, 1986, with the first Fox program airing on the station being the late night talk show The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, which was at that time the only program Fox offered, so KNXV still essentially remained independent.
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Due to its overt political activities, the Council of Canadians does not qualify as a registered charity in Canada. In 2011, the Council of Canadians backed a lawsuit brought by a group of voters against the Conservative Party of Canada over the 2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal. Ultimately the voters lost the lawsuit and decided not to appeal the decision to a higher court. In September 2016 the organization launched a boycott of Nestlé in response to the company outbidding a small town aiming to secure a long-term water supply through a local well, stressing the need for bottled water industry reform as the country battles drought and depletion of ground water reserves.
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He was then signed on by Gemini Film Circuit to remake Rajkumar Hirani's Hindi film Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006) into Tamil, but the project failed to materialise. Raja next began work on the family drama film Santosh Subramaniam (2008), a remake of the Telugu film Bommarillu (2006), after outbidding several other interested parties for the remake rights. The film's original version was made by Raja's friend, Bhaskar, who also stated that Raja would be the most apt director to remake the film into the Tamil language. Ravi and Prakash Raj were chosen again to play lead roles, while Genelia D'Souza was selected as the film's heroine, after winning acclaim for her portrayal of the role in the original version.
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Gulf Oil LP (the modern-day successor to the original Gulf Oil after Standard Oil of California—now Chevron—bought Gulf in 1984) replaced the Exxon stations on the turnpike in 1990; Sunoco took over operation of the gas stations from Gulf in 1993, outbidding Shell Oil. In 1995, a farmers market was introduced to the Sideling Hill service plaza. An electronic toll collection system was proposed in 1990 where a motorist would create an account and use an electronic device which would be read from an electronic tollbooth; the motorist would be billed later. The multi-state electronic tolling system E-ZPass was planned to go into effect by 1998; however, implementation of the system was postponed until 2000.
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Phillipps would go into book shops and purchase the entire stock; he would receive dealers catalogues and buy all the listings; his agents bought entire lots of books at auction, outbidding his rival the British Museum. His country seat, Middle Hill near Broadway, Worcestershire gave over sixteen of twenty rooms to books. Still life with ancient Babylonian artifacts on books, salted paper print, 1853, by Amelia Elizabeth Guppy In 1850 at a meeting of the Cambrian Archaeological society (Cymdeithas Hynafiaethau Cymru), Phillips announced that he was seeking to locate his large collection at a location in Wales. He employed a distant relative by marriage, Amelia Elizabeth Guppy, to photograph some of his collection in 1853 including artefacts from Babylon and Utrecht.
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At the instigation of the Alumni Committee a Society was set up, on the basis of an unassailable legality, to ensure the material life of the College, the "Société Rémoise Immobilière" and the Secondary Education Company, with capital of 140,000 francs paid by the shareholders. The founding meeting was held on 20 July 1908. An initial auction of the confiscated buildings had taken place on 7 April 1908; but the price of 250,000 francs for the property of the Faubourg Ceres appeared excessive to the Alumni Committee, and they declined the purchase. No other purchaser appeared and on 21 July 1908 the second auction found the city of Reims outbidding everyone; the building of the Faubourg Ceres was awarded to the city for 253,000 francs.
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In 1986, the DuMont owned-and-operated station group Metromedia was acquired by News Corporation and used as the foundation to relaunch a fourth commercial network, which obtained affiliations with many former big-city independent stations as Fox TV. Fox initially combined former independents and UHF stations. it had large programming budgets that the original DuMont lacked. Ultimately, it was able in some markets to draw existing VHF affiliates away from established Big Three networks, outbidding CBS for National Football Conference programming in 1994 and attracting many of that network's affiliates. Various smaller networks were created with the intent to follow in its footsteps, often by affiliating with a disparate collection of formerly independent UHF stations that otherwise would have no network programming.
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The first IRT subway ran between City Hall and 145th Street at Broadway, opening on October 27, 1904. It opened following more than twenty years of public debate on the merits of subways versus the existing elevated rail system and on various proposed routes. Founded on May 6, 1902, by August Belmont, Jr., the IRT's mission was to operate New York City's initial underground rapid transit system after Belmont's and John B. McDonald's Rapid Transit Construction Company was awarded the rights to build the railway line in 1900, outbidding Andrew Onderdonk. On April 1, 1903, over a year before its first subway line opened, the IRT acquired the pre-existing elevated Manhattan Railway by lease, gaining a monopoly on rapid transit in Manhattan.
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By this time, NBC was mired in third place in the ratings, however sports remained a valuable television commodity for the network. In addition to the typically massive audience that watched the Super Bowl, NBC's broadcasts of the 1978 and 1980 World Series each earned a 32.8 rating, with the former being watched by an average of 44 million people and the latter by 42 million. This powerful sports lineup, coupled with a resurgent prime time schedule featuring hit shows like The Cosby Show and Cheers, would put NBC back on top of the ratings by the middle of the decade. In December 1988, CBS obtained the exclusive broadcast rights to Major League Baseball, outbidding NBC and ABC and ending NBC's tenure as the home of baseball after 43 years.
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Reuel Colt Gridley and his famous sack of flour One campaign to raise funds for the sanitary commission was run by Twain's friend Mexican–American War veteran and grocer Reuel Colt Gridley, whom he had known from his school days in Hannibal. The campaigning centered on a flour sack that Gridley carried around from town to town throughout the region. Individuals, groups, and towns would "bid"/donate to the "purchase" of the flour sack trying to out-contribute/"bid" each other, solely for the purpose of civic pride and "the pleasure of outbidding one's rivals, and in the briskly competitive West, this proved a clever incentive to pry open people's pocketbooks." Gridley always maintained possession of the sack and would bring it with him to his next stop in the region.
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The property that Pacific Shores Center was developed on had many uses through the years from part of the Redwood City Harbor Company to cement production to being part of saltworks with Leslie Salt. In the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois bought of land adjacent to the Port of Redwood City and Westpoint Slough and formed the Pacific Shores Center Partnership to develop it. After many years of planning Redwood City and the partnership had a complete development agreement with plans for a land swap, that decreased the total property to , and public shore space to allow for public use of parts of the property. In Jay Paul Company entered into an agreement to buy the rights for the project by outbidding several other competing developers with a bid.
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On December 12, 2007, 2 consortia bid for a 25-year license to run the Philippine power grid – privatization of the management of the National Transmission Corporation (TransCo): the consortium of Monte Oro Grid Resources Corp., comprising the State Grid Corporation of China, and Calaca High Power Corp., won in an auction conducted by the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (PSALM) Corp. as it submitted the highest offer of $3.95 billion, for the right to operate TransCo for 25 years, outbidding San Miguel Energy, a unit of San Miguel Corporation (bid of $3.59 billion), Dutch firm TPG Aurora BV and Malaysia's TNB Prai Sdn Bhd. Jose Ibazeta, PSALM president and CEO remarked: “We are very happy about the successful turnout of the bidding for TransCo. PSALM handled the privatization of the government’s transmission business with utmost transparency and judiciousness.
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When COSMOTE acquired AMC, the company had 11,000 subscribers actually making outgoing calls. In August 2000, AMC launched Albakarta and in December 2001 AMC customer base exceeded 273,000 customers and in 2009 it had reached a customer base of 1.9 million. Currently, the company’s network covers 99.6% of the population and 95% of the geographical area. However, in 2011 its customer base retreated to 1.8 million. In 2011 AMC entered in the Albanian landline market, the second company in Albania that offers landlines in all country. AMC was the second mobile operator that provides 3G technology in Albania. In September 2011 the Albanian government awarded the second 3G network license to AMC for € 15.1 million ($20.6 million) outbidding Eagle Mobile which offered 12.9 million euros. In January 2012 AMC Launched 3G services in Albania, only 3 months following the 3G license acquisition.
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Six months after the launch, the company joined up with Meridian Broadcasting, HTV, Channel Television and S4C to create a joint advertising sales operation. During the summer of 1996, Westcountry prepared to float the company on the stock market, which resulted in HTV, United News & Media, Carlton Communications and Canwest bidding to buy out Westcountry. In October 1996 GWR, the radio group, made a bid of £70m for Westcountry TV, outbidding both HTV and Carlton, but within a few weeks United News & Media increased its offer and was expected to acquire the company, But Westcountry owners had become increasingly frustrated at the slow progress of talks and criticised United boss Lord Hollick's "nickel and dime" tactics over negotiations, opting instead to sell to Carlton Communications for £10m higher than United's offer of around £75m, around 25 November 1996. Hollick was described as "disappointed but far from livid" at the outcome.
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A partnership can preempt the opponents cooperatively, having discovered that they have an excellent suit fit but not much overall defensive strength. For example, after the partner opens 1♦ and RHO doubles, the following hand is suitable for a bid of 5♦, outbidding opponents' major suit game in advance: In a more general sense, even low-level and non-jump bids can have a preemptive value if they deprive the opponents of bidding suits that they could otherwise bid on level 1 or 2. For example, weak 1 notrump (characteristic for Acol system) opening takes up entire level 1 from the opponents, who could bid their long suit on level 1 had the opening been 1 of a minor, like in Standard American bidding. However, there is always the danger that the preempting side could preempt themselves, taking up their own bidding space that could be used for constructive bidding.
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Plans for the channels launch came about when it was announced in June 2012 that the broadcast rights to the Premier League from the 2013–14 to 2015–16 season were awarded to BT and Sky, outbidding existing broadcaster ESPN for the rights. BT showed 38 live matches from the Premier League each season, including 18 first pick matches, from the 2013/14 season to the end of the 2015/16 season. In October 2012 BT announced it had also agreed deals to air Serie A, Ligue 1, Brasileirão and Major League Soccer, all of which were previously broadcast on ESPN, as well as Premiership Rugby. In January 2013 BT announced they will also broadcast Women's Tennis Association matches from 21 tournaments. On 25 February 2013, BT announced that it had acquired ESPN's UK channels and their sports broadcasting rights, including rights to the FA Cup, UEFA Europa League, Scottish Premier League, Bundesliga and NASCAR.
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In a Miami bankruptcy court in November 2009, corporate raider and financier Carl Icahn – who previously controlled American Casino & Entertainment Properties – offered US$156 million in cash and financing, outbidding Penn National Gaming for control of the Fontainebleau. Icahn's bid includes a US$51 million debtor-in-possession loan, which, until the resort is auctioned, will provide funding to stabilize the building, cover employees' salaries, cover previous costs and eliminate the need for the resort to ask the bankruptcy court each week to borrow and spend money. Penn National dropped out of the bidding after going as high as US$145 million; they had offered US$101.5 million in cash and loans. As of November 2009, the cost to complete the resort is an estimated US$1 to 1.5 billion. On February 18, 2010, Carl Icahn assumed part-ownership of the project without an auction by being the only qualified bidder, paying US$150 million.
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On December 12, 2007, two consortia bid for a 25-year license to run the Philippines power grid—privatization of the management of the National Transmission Corporation (TransCo), the consortium of Monte Oro Grid Resources Corp., led by businessman Enrique Razon, comprising the State Grid Corporation of China, and Calaca High Power Corp., won an auction conducted by the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (PSALM) Corp. as it submitted the highest offer of $3.95 billion, for the right to operate TransCo for 25 years, outbidding San Miguel Energy, a unit of the Filipino San Miguel Corporation (bid of $3.905 billion), Dutch firm TPG Aurora BV, and Malaysia's TNB Prai Sdn Bhd. Manila Times, RP-China group wins $3.95-B TransCo bid Abs-Cbn Interactive, Monte Oro consortium wins TransCo bidding The resulting consortium became the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) which started its operations, management, and maintenance on TransCo's transmission facilities and assets on January 15, 2009 and the franchise will end on December 1, 2058.
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In 1984 a new restoration and edit of the film, running 83 minutes, was made by Italian music producer Giorgio Moroder, who paid $200,000 for the rights, outbidding his Cat People collaborator David Bowie. Although Moroder initially intended only to create a new soundtrack, he was surprised by the lack of a definitive print, and expanded his project to a major reconstruction. Moroder's version, which was made in consultation with the Munich Film Archive and their archivist, Enno Patalas, was tinted, featured additional special effects, replaced intertitles of character dialogue with subtitles and incorporated a soundtrack featuring songs composed and produced by Moroder and recorded with popular artists such as Freddie Mercury, Bonnie Tyler, Pat Benatar, Adam Ant and Jon Anderson instead of a traditional score. It was the first serious attempt made at restoring Metropolis to Lang's original vision, and until the restorations in 2001 and 2010, it was the most complete version of the film commercially available; the shorter run time was due to the extensive use of subtitles and a faster frame rate than the original.
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On December 13, 1998, Maskhadov officially named the warlord Arbi Barayev as the chief suspect.Chechen president orders kidnap crackdown, BBC News, December 13, 1998"Russian anti-terrorist operation", Moskovskiye Novosti, August 8, 2000 Barayev himself denied that his group kidnapped and killed the foreigners.Chechnya Rebel Kidnapping and Beheading Some former hostages, including Magomed Chaguchiev from Dagestan, said they were held by Barayev together with the victims.My days of hell with the doomed Britons, The Sunday Times, June 15, 2003 Abdurakhman Adukhov, a former Russian hostage, claimed in November 2001 that Barayev told him that Osama bin Laden paid him $30m to kill the hostages, outbidding the ransom demand of $10m.Britons killed 'by Bin Laden ally', BBC News, 18 November 2001Kidnapped, BBC News, 20 November 2001 Aid worker and writer Jonathan Littell paid attention to sources claiming "that two of the murdered engineers were in fact undercover British agents" and, citing "a young Chechen journalist", speculated that it was probably the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) that outbid the employers of kidnapped workers to get them beheaded by Barayev and his gang, rather than be released.
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La Fleche (French for The Arrow), a brown mare standing just under 16 hands high was bred by the Royal Studs at Hampton Court and was foaled on 10 March 1889. She was an exceptionally well-bred and "beautiful" filly and attracted much attention when she was sent to be auctioned as a yearling on 28 June 1890 at the Bushey Paddocks. She was bought by Lord Marcus Beresford on behalf of the financier Baron Maurice de Hirsch for a sum of 5,500 guineas, outbidding the Duke of Portland and John Porter and breaking the record for a yearling sold at auction, which had stood since 1876. Her sire, St Simon was an unbeaten racehorse who was beginning to prove himself as an outstanding sire. By the time La Fleche was sold in 1890 he was on the way to the first of his nine sires’ championships, having sired the first two of his ten Classic winners. Her dam, Quiver produced La Fleche’s full-sister Memoir, who won the Epsom Oaks and the St Leger as well as the influential broodmares Maid Marian and Satchel.
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