21.   If all the coping strategies fail then individuals should consider getting help from a mental-health professional.

22.   If the strategy fails, Compaq could end up losing market share to competitors like IBM and Hewlett-Packard Corp.

23.   If that strategy failed, they would have been content to walk him and bring in closer Billy Wagner to face lefthanded-hitting Larry Walker.

24.   If that strategy fails, too, the idea of binding arbitration could leap to the forefront.

25.   If the strategy fails, Arena will be condemned along with the national team program to a two-year purgatory with no World Cup prize at stake.

26.   In a nutshell, the strategy failed.

27.   In any case, the strategy failed.

28.   In this strike, the strategy failed.

29.   It looks as if this strategy may fail.

30.   Lockhart insisted the Republican strategy would fail.