31.   Both lost bids for gold medals.

32.   Bush responded to a massive threat of starvation and disease with troops, only after he had lost his bid for reelection.

33.   But he lost his bid for re-election.

34.   But Humphrey lost his bid to become governor to Jesse Ventura, the Reform Party candidate.

35.   But he omitted the fact that McCain lost his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

36.   But Kassebaum, who could become chairman of the Senate Labor Committee if enough Democrats lose their bids for re-election, sounded reluctant to rush.

37.   But Monday, Le Pen lost a bid for the presidency of the regional assembly in Marseilles because conservatives there refused to support him.

38.   But more recently, also running as a Democrat, he had lost bids for Congress and the lieutenant governorship.

39.   But observers say unless one steps aside, they will both lose their bid to succeed Haley Barbour as chairman of the RNC.

40.   But the former mayor and his wife lost separate bids for parliament in elections last December, and he instead accepted a position as legal adviser to the Kremlin.