51.   About that time, Brownsville attorney Tony Martinez suggested they pool resources and bid on the jail, which had been standing empty for a decade.

52.   Addressing the decorators when they bid on rooms or spaces, she told them in no uncertain terms that this was not to be your usual summery show house.

53.   After nine months, we had managed to bid on nine houses.

54.   After the meeting, Gittens said the bid requirements would be changed so that the shoeshiners would be allowed to bid on their area of expertise alone.

55.   After violating the Davis-Bacon act, the big electrical contractor was told it could not bid on federally funded construction projects for three years.

56.   AIDS groups that have long criticized the city said they would not bid on the new program and predicted that it would fail.

57.   Allen Burchett, owner of Sta-bilt Construction, a road-repair company, plans to use the Internet lines to bid on federal projects.

58.   Bufete led a group that bid on the project.

59.   Broadway Digital then bid on the collection, winning out over a well-heeled rival, Microsoft, which owns other photo archives.

60.   But after a review by top Boeing executives, that decision was reversed and Boeing has notified NASA it will bid on the contract.