21.   Pro Stock driver Gordie Rivera escaped serious injury during his final qualifying attempt.

22.   President Bush spoke by telephone to his senior foreign policy advisers before one final attempt to reach agreement Monday.

23.   Saturday, he will make his final attempt to qualify, again at Northeastern.

24.   Saturday could be the final attempt for this mission until late November, though mission managers have yet to officially declare those intentions.

25.   Scott, by contrast, disdained the use of sled dogs on his final attempt on the pole, using the pulling power of ponies and human beings instead.

26.   The decree adopted Saturday was a final attempt to show those Western donors that the government is sincere in cooperating with the tribunal.

27.   The fall came as a third and final attempt to sell bankrupt Hanbo Steel Co. at public auction failed.

28.   The House voted overwhelmingly Friday to reject the final attempts to add crippling amendments to the main bipartisan bill for overhauling federal campaign finance laws.

29.   The quake also spurred one final attempt by state and local officials to keep MicroAire in California.

30.   Then there was his final attempt.