1.   To receive and accept, at its discretion, bids from marketmakers, both during and outside market hours, for stock.

2.   During a conference call with securities analysts, Northrop Grumman executives tacitly acknowledged that their offer was inferior to the all-cash bid from General Dynamics.

3.   Mike Cather is making a strong comeback bid from his rib-extraction surgery.

4.   The last-minute all-cash bid from Eni underscores the urgency among energy companies to increase production through consolidation.

5.   The Queensland state government today raised its takeover bid for Metway Bank Ltd., trumping for the second time a rival bid from St.George Bank Ltd.

6.   Those marks demand attention and respect and, in a world with maybe less anti-Big East bias, perhaps even bids from the architects of the NCAA tournament.

7.   Milliyet said the joint chiefs of staff have secretly ordered military units to stop purchasing goods or accepting bids from these companies.

8.   Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington and the under-contruction Jack Kent Cooke Stadium in suburban Maryland bid from the U.S. capital.

9.   The IOC also turned down a third bid from the Swiss group CWL, headed by Cesar Luthy.

10.   UEFA also added that it firmly believed there should only be one bid from Europe to host the finals.