Still, there is an effective secret weapon: an outside bidder who understands the game and really wants the instrument.

But it is clearly the outside bidders who face the bigger setback as a result of the decision.

Here's the problem, though: There are no outside bidders for these companies.

It would also keep the Yankee telecasts from being acquired by any outside bidder.

Rarely does a management group that proposes taking the company it runs private end up losing to an outside bidder.

He hopes to draw outside bidders with a new climate and a safe environment.

He declined to say if offers had been received from outside bidders.

ABC was the first network to be taken over by an outside bidder; the others followed in rapid succession.

They also warn that some leading hospitals may face an uncertain future if they lose patients to outside bidders.

According to the plan the Royals had six years to find a local owner for the team before opening ownership to an outside bidder.