81.   The measure narrowly failed.

82.   The measure narrowly failed last month.

83.   The measure failed.

84.   The stand-alone tax hike measure will fail and Democrats contend it is an attempt to embarrass them and Clinton.

85.   The success of the process may depend on the degree to which other measures have failed.

86.   There is no backup plan if the measure fails, he said.

87.   Though he was absent for the vote, when the measure failed, he co-sponsored similar legislation the following year.

88.   Throughout the campaign, however, Riordan refused to speculate on what the city would do to build the needed facilities if the measure failed.

89.   With incumbents voting on it, though, the measure failed.

90.   Alcohol taxes have been changed several times this year, but the measures so far have failed to curtail a widespread black-market trade in the goods.