1.   After all, economists point out that the bidding system used by the federal employees plan, upon which Breaux modeled his own plan, is clearly deficient.

2.   Congress has exempted the FAA from federal procurement rules and given it the authority to devise its own bidding system.

3.   Buses owners and drivers called the strike to protest a government plan to reorganize the public transportation routes through a bidding system.

4.   Buses owners and drivers oppose a government plan to reorganize the public transportation routes through a bidding system.

5.   Ebay receives hundreds of complaints each week from customers who receive unsolicited e-mail, or spam, after using the online bidding system, spokesman Kevin Pursglove said Thursday.