31.   Other teams claimed the Dodgers ended up bidding against themselves.

32.   Others make law firms bid against each other to represent a class of plaintiffs.

33.   Others allow retailers to bid against each other until one prevails with the lowest price.

34.   Prices of apartments in Manhattan have begun to decline as young investment bankers have stopped bidding against one another for Park Avenue pre-wars and TriBeCa lofts.

35.   Raytheon is widely believed to be bidding against larger competitors to buy Hughes.

36.   Richard Schwartz, the aide assigned by Giuliani to explore privatization, hopes that in time it will be routine for private companies to bid against municipal employees.

37.   Several years before that, BellSouth bid against Craig McCaw for Linn Broadcasting, which owned a stable of cellular phone licenses across the country.

38.   Some critics have suggested that the potential losses built into the contract structure kept some companies from bidding against National Heritage, which was the only bidder.

39.   Still unclear is whether the FCC will preclude the four likely bidders from colluding -- creating two entities -- to avoid having to bid against each other.

40.   That created the dilemma of forming a close linkage with someone that Dell regularly bids against for corporate business.