41.   If the IMF plan is, indeed, a total failure, where does the blame lie?

42.   In fact, I consider myself almost a total failure.

43.   Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdul-Illah Khatib said deliberations over Iraq and Kuwait have not been a total failure.

44.   The tiny and remote Pacific island nation of Kiribati has become even more isolated following a total failure of its telecommunications system.

45.   Chiao Jen-ho said he did not think the six days of talks in Beijing with his Chinese counterpart Tang Shubei last week were a total failure.

46.   Eager to show that the summit was not a total failure, US officials could only underline the new relationship that they say now links Arafat and Netanyahu.

47.   The return of refugees and those displaced by fighting to their former homes has been almost total failure.