91.   Certainly, there was still the potential for Comcast to drum up support from other quarters and escalate the bidding war.

92.   Coffin said he resists costly bidding wars.

93.   Comcast beat out both AOL Time Warner and Cox Communications, the fifth-largest cable company, in a bidding war that began last summer.

94.   Computer system vendors, eager to avoid bidding wars and vendor monopolies, have banded together to develop a remedy.

95.   Coll said that nickel prices have fallen since the deposit was acquired, and that Inco paid a premium after a bidding war with its archrival, Falconbridge.

96.   Critics, however, say the change is a potential threat to the quality of care and could push physicians into a bidding war.

97.   CSX declined comment on the new offer, but whatever the railroad opts to do, the bidding war is probably coming to a close.

98.   CSX and Norfolk Southern agreed to divide Conrail after a bruising bidding war between the two Virginia-based carriers, the two largest railroads east of the Mississippi.

99.   CSX and rival Norfolk Southern Corp. have been in a bidding war for Conrail Inc. for weeks.

100.   DBS said on Monday that it would not be drawn into a bidding war, which means that the battle is probably over.