51.   The existing company may bid to keep its own customers.

52.   The government said they may allow additional companies to bid if congress revises the selling terms.

53.   The idea was that companies would bid against one another for contracts to improve the pipes and poles and pumps and wiring.

54.   The Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based company bid for Domco even though Sommer rejected its offer last week.

55.   The number of takeover bids for Canadian oil companies has surged this year, increasing the chances another company will bid, analysts and investors said.

56.   The report called for allowing other companies to bid on the right to run trains.

57.   The payments are based on the population covered by a license and the number of licenses on which a company will bid.

58.   The same company cannot win both licenses, and international companies must bid with a Mexican partner, the commission said.

59.   The San Francisco company also is bidding for wireless licenses that will allow you to talk and send data from a single hand-held unit.

60.   The two companies bid the highest to operate a rail line between the states of Coahuila and Durango.