31.   Now that their strategy has backfired, companies are seeking a bailout.

32.   Now the strategy may be backfiring.

33.   Once, though, that strategy backfired.

34.   Republicans said any slow-down strategy would backfire.

35.   Sharpton, of course, rejected the implication that his strategy had backfired.

36.   Sanchez, who ended up trouncing Morales, said the Morales strategy backfired.

37.   Sometimes the preview strategy backfires.

38.   Some experts, however, say the strategy can backfire if it appears to obvious or contrived.

39.   Some striking workers concede that their strategy might backfire by putting GM further behind its rivals.

40.   Still, Rothenberg said, such a strategy could backfire on Gore.