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David gives us guidance. We had a clear-cut 10 years ago. We had nine bids from $60,000 to almost $200,000. If we had just gone in the middle, say $100,000, you see how much money we would have lost. I wouldn't think about making a timber sale without a forester. I would say that's the biggest benefit. You get good, free advice from the North Carolina Forest Service, too.

We had seven vendors who came to our pre-bid meeting, and four bids were received for the work.

The government has been discussing with the FA for some time the feasibility ... but we are a long way off still, ... It is the same process as we went through before deciding to go ahead with London's Olympic bid, looking at what we ought to be presenting to the government about whether this country bids or not.

It's not ethical. As auctioneer you sit on the fence between buyers and sellers. We get hundreds of absentee bids and I would hate people to think, 'Oh, he's taken a higher bid.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Where the dealers are making a market with a wide spread, but have in their possession an order to buy stocks at a higher price than they're bid, or for a lower price than they're offering, they want the investors and the institutions to see those better bids and offers.

The township is doing all of the design and property acquisition, and we expect to put it out for bids in December of this year. If everything gets done on schedule, we expect to start in spring of (2007) and get it finished in the summer of (2008).

The top three bidders are here tonight to give further information about their bids and what they plan to do with the property if they are awarded the bid.

The original bids for construction costs started out at $8 million, then it went to $12 million. To stop the bleeding, we've signed a contract for $13.5 million. It's locked in now.

In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second term.