41.   BAe and GEC have been locked in a bidding war for VSEL since last October.

42.   BAe and GEC have been locked in a bidding war for VSEL since October.

43.   Bau Holding recently lost a bidding war for Mayreder Bau GmbH, the largest privately-held construction company in Austria.

44.   Bergen Belsen became a dumping ground later in the war for prisoners from other camps.

45.   Both companies have been fighting a continual war for market share.

46.   Both companies have been caught up in speculation that there will be a bidding war for nickel producer Diamond Fields Resources Ltd.

47.   Both Serbs and Albanians regard Mitrovica as the last battlefield of the war for Kosovo and as such unfinished business.

48.   -- Keith Sykes, Credit Lyonnais Securities analyst, about GEC outbidding British Aerospace Plc in a bidding war for British submarine maker VSEL Plc.

49.   A bidding war for USAir would have given the British airline several attractive options, analysts said.

50.   A bidding war for rail supremacy in the East is now expected, leading two analysts to cut their ratings today for CSX.