Late yesterday, the dollar was bid at 129 yen, a decline of 2.5 percent from levels a day earlier.

Buyers can bid for an entire block of votes from a state.

In that year, timber companies bid $450 million for logs from the agency's forests.

Small mill owners used to bid for wood from state and private forests.

A player may bid anything from 160 through 304, the maximum points that can be made in a game.

The players may bid anything from three up to the lot (seven tricks).

To this end, Fox bid aggressively for football from the start.

Three companies bidding for about $100 billion in annual business from the Pentagon would not be healthy.

Still, some West 140th Street entrepreneurs said they would not have bid on the project without substantial help from the city.

She bid farewell to life and to the pain of separation from him.