11.   The information had also been disclosed in confidence to another shareholder who was using if for the purpose of making a bid for the plaintiff company.

12.   A Court Scheme is not a practical option where one or more competitive bids may be made.

13.   The ten million German mark bid was made on letter-headed paper of a company called Investment Chartwork.

14.   Some family black sheep are making a bid for affection.

15.   Also shown is the lot number for the object, its starting bid and the dollar increments in which the bids must be made.

16.   An unidentified bidder, believed to be a private company, made the bid and the sale of Renaissance is, for the moment, again on hold.

17.   Analysts said the likelihood of Bombardier making a bid for all of Fokker was remote.

18.   Analysts said they doubted Regent itself would make a bid for Hambros.

19.   Analysts said that if the stock was even close to that level, Hilton would never have considered making a bid.

20.   Analysts speculate that Kraft could make a bid for Nabisco, or that Philip Morris could spin Kraft off as an independent company, but Holden declines comment.