41.   The Ellerbe Becket architectural firm announced Wednesday that three managers have left after an unsuccessful bid to acquire its Kansas City sports facilities office.

42.   The offer follows two unsuccessful WHX bids for other companies with over-funded pension plans, Teledyne Inc. and Dynamics Corporation of America.

43.   The Russians are in the final weeks of a so far unsuccessful bid to find a private source of funding to keep Mir operating for several more years.

44.   This convention attracted Republicans of all stripes, including David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klansman who won national attention for his unsuccessful bids for statewide office.

45.   U S West went to court in an unsuccessful bid to block the Turner acquisition.

46.   A businessman has been arrested on charges of illegally funneling millions of dollars into an unsuccessful parliamentary bid earlier this month, prosecutors said Sunday.

47.   A year later, he launched an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Congress.

48.   And his offseason included an unsuccessful bid to decertify the players union.

49.   Britain and the United States made an unsuccessful bid for U.N. Security Council backing for the measures.

50.   Chavalit, a onetime army general, has made several unsuccessful bids for the prime ministership.