21.   IBM in June used the possibility of a consent solicitation to strengthen its successful hostile bid for software maker Lotus Development Corp.

22.   Key ingredients to a successful bid are a good price and a buyer that would help Whittaker thrive, he added.

23.   Later, the American Home Products Corp. made a successful unsolicited bid for the American Cyanamid Co.

24.   Market mavens, economists and party activists say a successful bid for the Republication nomination by Buchanan would be ruinous for the markets.

25.   McClatchy is the latest in a line of potential buyers to try to put together a successful bid.

26.   Paul Styles, media analyst at KPMG Peat Marwick in London, said he expected a successful bid by News Corp. could have to overcome antitrust concerns.

27.   Revelations have shown that similar bidding practices occurred in other successful bid cities, including Atlanta, Sydney, Australia, and Nagano, Japan.

28.   Roeck went to a board member in a successful bid to save his job, Hamilton said.

29.   She made repeated visits to New York last fall to raise money for the successful Senate bid of former Rep. Charles Schumer.

30.   She maintained a record of each successful bid and gradually developed a strategy, elements of which she passes along to other club members.