And if the bid does succeed, leaving Chrysler heavily in debt, analysts say that competitors would immediately start taking advantage of the situation.

And so questions remained even though Pfizer's executives expressed confidence yesterday that their bid would succeed.

He said yesterday that those plans would go ahead regardless of whether his bid for Dow Jones succeeded.

Its bid to enter the Japanese market in 1994 did not succeed, but it plans to venture again.

If Time's new bid for Warner succeeds, the numbers are also staggering.

Indeed, investors seemed to believe that the bid would not succeed.

Too many participants gain when a contested bid succeeds.

But if their bid to host the 2018 World Cup succeeds, that may change.

No bids from countries in Africa have succeeded.

While state regulators could make a takeover of a phone company difficult, analysts say a hostile bid could succeed.