"It's good to get some independent bids now and then," she said.

He had also been considering an independent bid, but said raising money would be too difficult under campaign finance laws.

James Soong launched an independent bid for the presidency after failing to be nominated by the party.

Yet he has no obvious regional base, and the states most responsive to an independent bid are poor in electoral votes or insufficiently anti-party.

Mr. Perot is considering an independent bid for the Presidency but has not declared a candidacy.

Investigators said that by using the names of the different companies, custodians claimed to have properly obtained independent bids required for their purchases above $251.

And real estate developers would have fewer independent bids for space in their shopping malls.

But now, Mr. Jackson thinks that an independent bid, even if symbolic, might be worth the time.

Though she had made an independent bid for what the focus-stone might deliver, she would never have shut off all roads of retreat.

In the polls, he was running a distant fourth in his independent bid.