'A corruption scheme in which several bidders conspire to split contracts, thereby ensuring that each gets a certain amount of work, is known as Bid pooling.
Bid pooling coordination is a fraudulent procurement auction method that results in uncompetitive bids and can be conducted by corrupt officials, companies in organized collusion, or between officials and companies. This form of collusion is illegal in most countries. This is a form of pricing and market sharing that often occurs when contracts are determined by tender, such as government construction contracts.
The typical purpose of a bid adjustment is to allow the "winner" to win the order at a non-competitive price. Other parties are compensated in various ways. By cash payment, or by agreement to be named the "winning" bidder in another contract, or to award a portion of the winning bidder's contract to them. 
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Thermal because you have to melt rocks for rocks to become other types of rocks.
        
                    
             
        
        
        
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They sent petitions to Congress and ran for political office 
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Stratus clouds are low clouds with a uniform layered base that are formed by rising thermals.
 
        
             
        
        
        
<span>The “urban revolution” or the leap into civilization was made about 3500BC; over the next 3,000 years, civilization spread throughout the ancient Near East.  The peoples of the ancient Near East learned to master their environment and create a food surplus.  These ancient peoples “invented” civilization and developed early forms of government, law, society, and economies.  These peoples created notable works of art and architecture, from the Ziggurat to the Pyramids to the palaces of Minoan civilization.  They invented writing: cuneiform and hieroglyphics.  They created sophisticated regions, ranging from the polytheism of most peoples to the ethical monotheism of the Hebrews.  As it did so, great empires rose and fell, creating a pattern that will be imitated throughout history;  most peoples, when given the opportunity, become aggressive and expansionist and build empires; each empire is then destroyed by the ambitions of the people who built it.  Surviving the collapse of Empires was the culture created by these peoples--and it will have an impact on our next cluster of civilizations, the Hellenic, the Hellenistic, and the Roman.  Collectively called Classical Civilization, these three dominated the Mediterranean world from ca 500 BC to AD 500.
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