41.   Those steps followed his successful bid yesterday to bring in the International Monetary Fund to help resuscitate the debt-ridden economy.

42.   Together, McNair and Patterson overcame the longest of odds on the way to building the successful NFL bid for Houston.

43.   Twenty years later, Clinton hired Segal as his chief of staff in a successful bid for the White House.

44.   While Lael had nearly eight miles to make his successful bid, Ortiz came up a little bit short.

45.   Word of the BMW deal Wednesday, however, evoked market disappointment at the price and the expectation that there would not be a successful higher bid.

46.   Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who ran the successful bid effort, has been in London for the past week.

47.   Billy Payne of Atlanta, the only other person to head both a successful bid and an organizing committee, endorsed Mrs. Angelopoulos-Daskalak.

48.   Clinton was asked repeatedly during her successful Senate bid last year whether she would seek the presidency and she routinely responded that she intended to serve her term.

49.   FIFA general secretary Michel Zen-Ruffinen says there are many elements that will go into any successful bid, and that no bid will be perfect.

50.   For months, Gadhafi has been toting the African banner in what has proven to be a largely successful bid to muster support against the sanctions and America.