31.   Not long after it opened, Cadwalader says, it soon became apparent that his original idea would not work.

32.   Off-beat ideas can also work.

33.   One year ago, after he and Umphress were convinced the idea would work, Loughry said they contacted the federal government about it.

34.   Organizational structures that cause it to take forever for ideas to work their way up and down the ladder.

35.   Our idea had worked, and since then, I have made this easy and rather impressive dish several times a year.

36.   Rejected for a National Institutes of Health grant on the ground that his idea would not work, he was able to raise private money instead.

37.   So far, the idea has not worked very well.

38.   The cards were to be used as a test to see whether the idea works.

39.   The idea could work, as long as elections officials had some way of making sure the ballots were indeed signed and sent in time, she said.

40.   The idea did not work, he said, because there is no deliverable commodity like bullion.