So Mr Kloppers eventually stopped digging and dropped the bid, at considerable cost to BHP and to his own reputation.The industry's attention soon turned to another transaction.
Now the focus was on mega-mergers, mostly between regional competitors with considerable overlap, in a bid for economies of scale that would let the industry switch its focus from competition between rail firms to competition with trucks.The first big sign that this would prove troublesome was the 1997 merger of Union Pacific (UP) and Southern Pacific to become America's largest rail firm.
Ellison, ranked No. 5 on the Forbes World's Richest People list, has poured nearly $85 million of his own money and considerable time into his first bid to bring the America's Cup back to the U.S. His Oracle BMW team is leading 2-0 itsits best-of-seven ragainsties against OneWorld, a U.S. team lead by investor Craig McCaw Craig McCaw and Paul G. Allen, co-founder of software megarival Microsoft.
Her departure would cap a difficult episode for CBS, which brought Ms. Couric to the network with considerable fanfare in a bid to catapult "Evening News" back into first place.
Several of the various bidders have already devoted considerable resources to their bids.
This bid was a considerable surprise to East, who had to pass.
During her five-year term, Ms. Mayawati erected statues and parks at considerable public expense in a bid to make her mark on the state.
For some time, there has been considerable noise surrounding New York's bid for the Olympics in 2012 -- including the truly dumb idea of a stadium on Manhattan's West Side.
The odds are very long; the expense of putting together a credible bid package is considerable.
Considering Cumberland River had hired the pricey Washington, D.C., law firm of Crowell & Moring to litigate the case, it probably ran up a considerable tab in its failed bid to keep a disciplinary infraction in one miner's record.
Intriguingly, in a chimeric mouse-human model the activation of BID results in a considerable decline of HCV RNA in serum, which suggests the antiviral property of BID [ 55].
