The industry's message, it said, would be that "politicians played politics and made a mess" of a legitimate offer.

"There appear to be some legitimate offers for the sale of the club," he said late tonight.

This took New York an awfully long time to make a legitimate offer to us.

The strategy's message would be that "politicians played politics and made a mess" out of a legitimate offer.

We made what I thought was a perfectly fair, legitimate offer.

"They made a legitimate offer and we have to look at it."

"They never came with a legitimate offer, one we could even consider," Schneider said.

"Well, it's against the law for a business to advertise a service and then reject a legitimate offer."

"But the committee certainly views it to be in the obligation of shareholders to consider any legitimate offer."

Of course, the item is never delivered, as it was not a legitimate offer in the first place.