31.   McCain waged an unsuccessful bid for the GOP presidential nomination against Bush in the Republican primaries before withdrawing from the race last March.

32.   One Republican who got a cold reception was David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klansman who won national attention for his unsuccessful bids for statewide office.

33.   Sharp will leave office in January after an unsuccessful bid for lieutenant governor.

34.   Shields succeeds Marsha Murphy, who made an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.

35.   Some people wonder whether the central bank chief, Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, who made an unsuccessful presidential bid, will keep her post.

36.   Subsequently, the former astronaut made an unsuccessful bid for president.

37.   State Street Global Advisors, a unit of State Street Boston Corp., made an unsuccessful bid last year to acquire Wells Fargo Nikko Investment Advisors.

38.   Stuart Stevens, a Republican consultant, who advised Whitman in her unsuccessful bid against Bradley for the Senate, concurred.

39.   The broadcast of the tape prompted Fujimori to call new presidential elections and Montesinos fled to Panama in an unsuccessful bid for political asylum.

40.   The campaign finance reform movement received a boost this year when Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., made the issue a cornerstone of his unsuccessful presidential bid.