They, and events of similar magnitude, like football's World Cup, sustain a counter-culture of sleaze, in which bribes are paid, either overtly, or as "gifts" offered during easily corrupted bidding processes for hosting, broadcasting or marketing rights.
But he fancies his chances of succeeding Mr Abe, and could not easily launch his bid from that position.So Mr Abe stumbles on for now, and colleagues even talk of co-operation with the DPJ.
Viacom, owner of Paramount film studios and television channels including MTV, Comedy Central and VH1, is in very different shape – and, surprisingly to most observers chief executive Philippe Dauman easily won his bid to replace its ageing patriarch.
And even though Vancouver General Manager Brian Burke has had nothing but praise for Messier, and reiterated yesterday that he would very much like to re-sign him, the Rangers can easily top any bid the Canucks might make.
Last year, the full UN membership bid easily won the support of ordinary Palestinians who had been energised by uprisings in other parts of the Arab world.
Down-ballot Democrats also rode the Obama momentum into office, with Senate candidate Kay Hagan and gubernatorial candidate Bev Perdue both easily winning their bids.
When sealed bids were opened on April 25th, Santander's offer of Ptas762 ($5.56) a share, valuing a 60.2% stake in the bank at $2 billion, easily topped rival bids from Banco Bilbao Vizcaya (BBV) and state-owned Argentaria.
(Being on the so-called sell side is usually a better bet in the short term than working for a suitor that could easily lose a bidding contest to a rival).
In order to financially compensate a synchronous generator for its Volt/Var support, the expected payment function of generator has been defined in such a way that all Var market participants can easily offer reactive bids to the independent system operator (ISO) [19].
It can be easily shown that bidding one's true valuation is a "weakly dominant strategy" in a second-price auction, meaning that Jim would never regret writing $100 on his slip of paper, nor would Sally ever regret writing $200 on hers.
