31.   Luzhkov is making several foreign trips in an apparent bid to raise his foreign profile.

32.   Madani was released from prison Tuesday, a week after the freeing of another Front leader, in an apparent bid by President Liamine Zeroual to end the violence.

33.   McRae caused a stir in the Catalunya race when he disobeyed Subaru team orders to slow down in an apparent bid to overtake teammate Sainz in the last lap.

34.   Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Posuvalyuk traveled to Baghdad late last week in an apparent bid to defuse the latest crisis.

35.   Security forces have detained several members of the Bani Dhabyan tribe in an apparent bid to gain leverage with the tribal elders.

36.   Simitis called snap elections in an apparent bid to exploit his personal popularity, saying he needed a fresh mandate to face economic and foreign policy challenges.

37.   The bank hiked the rates in an apparent bid to induce Iraqis to deposit cash in banks rather than stashing it away at home.

38.   The predominantely Tutsi government dropped incitement to murder charges Monday against the Hutu speaker of parliament in an apparent bid to calm ethnic tensions.

39.   Transport Minister Jean-Claude Gayssot announced that he would shortly propose a bill on working conditions in an apparent bid to break the ice.

40.   Troops were deployed in an apparent bid to prevent a bigger demonstration flaring.