51.   Gouging attempts should have failed because most stations kept prices steady.

52.   Grafting procedures are fairly straightforward, but past attempts have failed to produce a spruce with golden needles.

53.   Group members barraged Nippon management with questions, prolonging the meeting for more than four hours, but their attempts failed.

54.   He said the attempt would fail.

55.   He watched two other merger attempts fail before he put in his own bid six weeks ago.

56.   His suicide attempt fails, however.

57.   If attempts at settlement fail, he said, the complaint is referred to an administrative law judge for a hearing.

58.   If repeated attempts at correcting a behavior fail to produce results, you may be on the wrong track.

59.   If all attempts to shoot down the balloon fail, Branson said, the crewless balloon might keep going and end up circling the world in the jet stream.

60.   If attempts at resolution fail, the case will be placed on the general trial list and sent to the first available judge.