21.   Other potential vendors for the non-developmental airlift aircraft that reportedly declined to submit offers included Chrysler Tech Airborne Systems Inc., McDonnell Douglas Corp. and Alenia of Italy.

22.   Outside the courtroom, PricewaterhouseCoopers has submitted an offer to buy the tax practice of Andersen, which audited the books at Enron.

23.   Potential buyers can submit electronic offers for four days, with the item going to the highest bidder at the end of that time.

24.   Potential buyers were to submit preliminary offers for the appliance maker Friday, people familiar with the situation said Thursday.

25.   Raytheon Co. will begin auctioning its Amana unit tomorrow when potential buyers submit preliminary offers for the appliance maker, said people familiar with the situation.

26.   Starwood said it planned to formally submit its offer to ITT today.

27.   The company said that its board had determined that the International Paper bid was superior after both suitors submitted revised offers.

28.   The hitch is that if two or more bidders submit such an offer, the bids would pingpong endlessly and the price would approach infinity.

29.   The state-run phone monopolies are expected to submit another offer to the FCC by mid-October.

30.   The state-run phone monopolies are expected to submit another offer to the FCC by the middle of October.