11.   He later acknowledged that he had, and amended them after launching his bid for governor.

12.   He took leave from his job as managing partner of the Texas Rangers ballclub to challenge Richards and launched his bid a year ago.

13.   His rivals, for their part, get teased for launching White House bids four years before the next election.

14.   If it did launch a bid, BBA likely would highlight skepticism about the logic of combining Lucas with Varity.

15.   I would have to think that at the least Qwest put in a phone call to them before they launched their bid.

16.   In other stock activity, Placer Dome rose after speculation it will launch a bid for Australia-based Kidston Gold Mines Ltd.

17.   In January, it launched a bid for the mutually owned Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society but was outbid by Prudential Corp., the largest U.K. insurer.

18.   McCain and former Gov. Fife Symington hoped that Texas Sen. Phil Gramm would win the state, launching his bid for the GOP nomination.

19.   More recently, British Telecom and WorldCom Inc. both have launched bids to acquire MCI Communications Corp., one of the leading Internet service providers.

20.   Morales said since he launched his bid for the Senate, he has missed about half the meetings he was supposed to attend as a Crandall city councilman.