1.   But, he said, SCANA filed a protest that has delayed a decision in an apparent bid for competitive advantage.

2.   In an apparent bid to reassure investors, Parizeau said an independent Quebec would be committed to maintaining the Canadian dollar as its currency.

3.   Now Miller, in an apparent bid to sell the proposal to conservatives, plans to define it by poverty levels.

4.   The government refiled the embezzlement charges before Chessler in an apparent bid to gain a more sympathetic hearing.

5.   The government refiled the embezzlement charges before Chesler in an apparent bid to gain a more sympathetic hearing.

6.   President Fidel Ramos on Saturday fired his grains procurement chief in an apparent bid to ease public anger over a rice supply crisis.

7.   A pro-British terrorist group called the Red Hand Defenders has claimed responsibility for killing Mrs. Nelson, in an apparent bid to wreck the peace process.

8.   As many as seven bombs exploded Wednesday in the Tajik capital Dushanbe in an apparent bid to undermine peace talks in the restive Central Asian nation.

9.   But officials released him hours later in an apparent bid to improve damaged China-U.S. relations and deported him.

10.   But Zairian rebels controlling the area have repeatedly delayed the effort, in an apparent bid to force the United Nations to repair roads in rebel-held areas.