By instituting open, competitive, and transparent bidding, the department has saved 2.5 billion pesos from 3,692 projects nationwide in the past year.

What is the company's competitive advantage?

The fossil was offered to the highest bidder.

It was suggested that its incorporation be carried out and to put it up for sale.

Drafts of the script for the film Citizen Kane to be put up for auction.

The first mover is happy to make such trades without verifying that the news is true.

Structural and competitive impediments to growth have been largely ignored.

Britain s universities are one of our biggest assets, attracting many thousands of international students from around the world every year.

Indeed, positioning and bargaining among the euro s member countries has already started.

Bashkiria can put grain up for tender no earlier than the beginning of 2014

For more than three decades, no one really challenged the consequences of turning political power over to the highest bidders.

And trades do go wrong remember the collapse of Long Term Capital Management.

It is possible that grain will be put up for tender after the New Year, he announced at yesterday's press conference.

Trading often favors first movers, so being fast but wrong can still be profitable.

In Paris, at 10 a.m., the CAC 40 lost 1,4 to end at 3.064 points.

I have also emphasized that Lebanon must develop its comparative advantages, particularly in education, banking, and services.

Yes, America may be able to maintain a competitive advantage at the very top , the breakthrough research, the invention of the next laser.

Fortunately, Greece is a country of exceptional talents, capable of building new competitive sectors from the ground up, if given the chance.

Without even trying to suppress their giggles, Egyptians continued to monitor the bidding site, until the entry was removed, watching closely as the bid went from one US dollar to a stellar 100,000 US dollars.

It is only a decade since trading speeds fell below one second they are now as fast as the blink of an eye.

Indeed, HFT firms talk of a race to zero, the point at which trading takes place at close to the speed of light.

The US and the UK don t want to weaken their competitive advantage by taxing banks while some other countries do not.

The strategic test will be for regional organizations such as APEC to ensure that the spirit of cooperation always outweighs the member states competitive impulses.

Thus, they would minimize the deterioration in their trade surpluses, maintain competitive exchange rates, and safeguard their foreign reserves and net creditor positions.

Hardly anyone predicted the reformist Mohammed Khatami s resounding presidential victory in 1997, and even fewer foresaw hard line President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad s victory in 2005. For those who view Iran s democratic glass as being half full, the March 14 Majles elections will mark the 28th national election since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979, further entrenching a political culture unique in the Middle East.

But, resting on the laurels of the EU s founders, successive European leaders largely failed to perceive the competitive challenges posed by globalization.

In contrast to rigged elections in which the victors are pre determined, Iran s system allows competitive elections among pre selected candidates.

This in turn provides competitive advantage in economic performance, political and social stability and cultural development.

For example, after 1960, when the University of Chicago started creating a Univac computer tape that contained systematic information about millions of stock prices, a great deal of scientific research on the properties of stock prices was taken as confirming the efficient markets hypothesis.

The competitive forces that underlie stock exchanges were seen to force all securities prices to their true fundamental values.

630 shares finished up, 1913 down and 82 unchanged on the Nasdaq on turnover of 1.38 billion shares.

Tax avoidance and evasion was a central theme of the UK s presidency of the G 8 this year, resulting in commitments to unprecedented new levels of automatic exchange of tax information between countries.

The Republic's Minister of Agriculture Nikolai Kovalenko believes that during government purchasing interventions Bashkiria can put grain up for tender no earlier than the beginning of 2014.

These countries may not yet be full democracies, but, because they hold competitive elections, they have met a necessary condition for being a democracy.

An equally simplistic view of democracy is that it is a political system in which periodic competitive elections give the winner the right to govern without constraint.

Because bidding and private buying would not be permitted, available organs would be distributed to the next in line not just to the wealthy.

The creation of ONGC Mittal in late 2005 seems to have been intended to cut through bureaucratic processes, learn from the private sector, and strengthen bids as an infrastructure provider.

Greece is also the canary in the coal mine for the euro zone, where all the PIIGS economies (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) suffer from the twin problems of public debt sustainability and external debt sustainability. Euro accession and bull market convergence trades pushed bond yields in these countries toward the level of German bunds, with the ensuing credit boom supporting excessive consumption growth.

Euro accession and bull market convergence trades pushed bond yields in these countries toward the level of German bunds, with the ensuing credit boom supporting excessive consumption growth.

One of the most profound results of our work concerned Adam Smith's notion that competitive markets led, as if by an invisible hand,'' to efficient outcomes. Our analysis suggested that the invisible hand not only couldn't be seen it wasn't there, or was at best decrepit.

One of the most profound results of our work concerned Adam Smith's notion that competitive markets led, as if by an invisible hand,'' to efficient outcomes.

Whatever the two sides competitive positions, Sino American cooperation on issues like trade, financial stability, energy security, climate change, and pandemics will benefit both countries.

And, because of the country s comparative lack of soft power social, cultural, and economic attractiveness it stands ready touse the competitive advantages (i.e., its resource wealth) available to it.

A volatility feedback loop begins the more volatility, the more people feel they must pay attention to the market, and hence the more erratic their trades.

Once teaching reduces, if not eliminates, the original competitive advantage associated with a piece of research, academics and their funders are forced to seek new sources of advantage by producing new knowledge.