1.   No busy signals, paper jams, or failed attempts.

2.   After several failed attempts to break down the process in simple terms, he decides to roll a videotape of clips from movies employing the special effect.

3.   Four failed attempts to coax a zygote from egg and sperm.

4.   If both teams fail every attempt, then the game starts over.

5.   No more failed attempts to build stadiums, lucrative deals that would have made life a little easier for his father.

6.   On one hand, he wants to move on from that failed pole vault attempt four years ago at the last trials in New Orleans.

7.   Extensive efforts were made to disentangle the rope from the whale, but six attempts failed, thwarted by poor weather and inadequate doses of sedative.

8.   The Chinese failed several attempts for the second goal in the remainder of the first half.

9.   The move followed two false starts and one failed throw attempt.

10.   The Rome meetings, which began hours after Holbrooke brokered a Bosnian cease-fire pact Thursday, focused on ways to make peace stick after dozens of failed attempts.