11.   When the gavel comes down in the ongoing auction for MCI Communications Corp., at least two unsuccessful bidders will be looking for new quarry.

12.   France Telecom had backed NTL Mobile, the last unsuccessful bidder to withdraw from the auction.

13.   He said he had heard complaints from previous unsuccessful Olympic bidders, including Manchester, England, and Stockholm and Ostersund, Sweden.

14.   The suit was filed by Clint Reilly, a real estate investor, losing candidate for mayor and unsuccessful bidder for the Examiner.

15.   Unsuccessful bidders said the contest was between tradition and new ideas, with tradition emerging victorious.

16.   Alsthom is part of the Alcatel-Alsthom group which was the unsuccessful bidder against the French Lagardere Groupe to acquire the whole of Thomson SA.

17.   Among unsuccessful bidders were four privatised British water companies.

18.   Alcatel Alsthom was the unsuccessful bidder for the Thomson group in competition with the French Lagardere Groupe in a controversial attempt at privatisation.

19.   Alcatel was the unsuccessful bidder against the French Lagaredere Groupe to acquire the defence-electroncis group Thomson-CSF at the end of last year.

20.   The three companies are Alcatel Alsthom, which was the unsuccessful bidder in an aborted first attempt to privatise the Thomson group, and Dassault and Aerospatiale.