1.   And the companies interested in such a purchase -- Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. -- may be prevented from bidding by antitrust regulations.

2.   Bidding by cities does not have to be a festival of sleaze.

3.   Bidding by the big funds snowballed into broader bidding spree as investors tried to get into the market before the funds could.

4.   After the initial flashing of your card, you can continue bidding by merely lifting your hand.

5.   By doing so, however, the Mets may have been bidding only against themselves.

6.   Carriers can bid by the price of their service or by pickup and delivery time.

7.   For most of the sale, those who bid and who bought either left bids ahead of the sale or stayed at home, bidding by telephone.

8.   He said all offending items had been pulled from bidding by yesterday morning.

9.   If a once-in-a-lifetime horse like Secretariat or Citation came along today, he would almost certainly be the subject of bidding wars by racetracks.

10.   In a curious twist, commission officials said the prices paid for licenses reserved for minorities and women exceeded those open to bidding by all.