11.   Among United States companies, Sprint, MCI, BellSouth and Airtouch are expected to submit bids.

12.   Among them are billionaires Eli Broad and Ron Burkle, who are co-chairmen of the Los Angeles Host Committee that submitted the bid for Los Angeles for the convention.

13.   And Credit Suisse First Boston and Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale have submitted competing bids for Finance One Pcl, the biggest of the failed firms.

14.   And many carriers regularly auction vacation packages to members of their frequent-flier clubs, who submit bids of their miles.

15.   Any club interested in him must submit a bid to Major League Baseball headquarters by Monday.

16.   As they have since the bids were submitted Thursday, the Red Sox on Monday declined to discuss the bids.

17.   At least six groups submitted bids Thursday to buy the Boston Red Sox in the final phase of the yearlong effort to sell the team.

18.   At least two other banks submitted bids, the person said, although he declined to name them.

19.   At the time the Navy awarded the contract to Penn Ship, other more experienced ship builders submitted higher bids and were rejected.

20.   At the time several companies submitted bids, including Carlsberg, South African Breweries and Heineken.