1.   A few successful bids for his liberty, to tearful disappointments.

2.   Successful bids by management-employee teams would also help to meet the competition objective by establishing independent, locally based companies.

3.   The substantial sums which back the successful bids will be pocketed by the Treasury.

4.   A HORSE rescue group made a successful bid for a drugged pony at an auction where he was about to be sold for meat.

5.   In the wake of the successful Middlesbrough bid, TEC staff have taken a lead in one of the major strategies.

6.   And in Iowa in August, he ran into Thompson, who was helping to promote his successful bid to win a straw poll there.

7.   And while Ms. Runyon has many successes under her belt on Wall Street, the odds against a successful Olympic bid are daunting.

8.   At the same time, a successful bid to oust Saddam Hussein from power draws wide approval from many Muslim quarters.

9.   A Houston-area company has put in a successful bid to recycle the jellied gasoline.