31.   Ever since Jack Kennedy won his bid for the presidency, his Roman Catholic faith, once a bugaboo of presidential politics, disappeared into the mist of history.

32.   Feld said he and Cochran secretly arranged to split the fees Pacific Matrix would receive from AIG if it won the bid.

33.   For Design Cuisine, winning the bid was the easy part.

34.   His reputation, however, was tarnished with revelations that Salt Lake City officials paid money to IOC members in efforts to win their bids as Olympic hosts.

35.   Houston businessman Bob McNair won the bid for an NFL expansion team Wednesday.

36.   However, some IOC members meeting in Moscow were telling reporters privately that the Chinese capital could win the bid in the first round of voting.

37.   If Bank of America had won that bid, Murray says, the banking industry regionwide would look very different today.

38.   If Matra wins the bid, Daewoo hopes to buy Thomson Multimedia from it.

39.   If China wins the bid, President Jiang Zemin is expected to appear at the monument.

40.   In Los Angeles, Foundation Health Systems Inc. won the bid for the for-profit plan.