21.   Nashville vaulted onto the list because of huge home-town donations to the failed presidential bid of Lamar Alexander.

22.   Neighbors said Sanchez appeared to have driven around the garage in panic in a failed bid to escape his killers.

23.   Now it is the first failed hostile takeover bid.

24.   One recalls that Bob Dole repeatedly attacked the United Nations during his failed presidential bid.

25.   San Antonio-based SBC Communications also made a failed bid to enter the long-distance market in Oklahoma.

26.   Running for the Palm Springs mayorship came on a whim, just as his failed Senate bid.

27.   Sanchez has criticized Brown for not defending the city when then-Vice President Al Gore ran television commercials critical of Houston during his failed presidential bid last year.

28.   She reviewed three failed bids, for Mellon Bank, Dime Bancorp and Great Western Financial.

29.   She said Ensemble had offered Jane Harman a pro bono dose of Relevant to power the Web site for her failed gubernatorial bid.

30.   Support for ending affirmative action was highest among delegates who backed Buchanan or were supporters of the failed presidential bid of U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas.