41.   Last year, Volvo sold its car-building division to Ford to concentrate on heavy trucks, after rejecting a bid by Fiat to buy the whole company.

42.   Mary Myers, a spokeswoman for Clark at the Burson Marsteller public relations firm, said Clark would not comment beyond the statement and its letter rejecting the bid.

43.   NatWest rejected the bid as its rival, Barclays Plc, prepares to sell its equities business within the next few days.

44.   Northern Electric rejected the bid.

45.   On Monday, a federal judge rejected a bid by Boehringer to temporarily block sales of ranitidine hydrochloride by Novopharm.

46.   Salinger has rejected every bid to have those apprentice tales collected in book form.

47.   She pointed to parents who rejected a bid by Edison Schools, the private management company, to take over five New York City schools last year.

48.   SOCOG President Gary Pemberton said that there was much more risk of a lower result than a higher outcome if the NBC bid had been rejected.

49.   That decision rejected a bid by some rail workers to sue for emotional distress and the cost of medical checkups because they were exposed to massive amounts of asbestos.

50.   The agreement stipulated that the Red Sox could accept new bids at any time or reject any bid at any time and seek new bids.