51.   California Democrat Jane Harman defeated Republican incumbent Steve Kuykendall to return to the seat she gave up two years ago in an unsuccessful bid for governor.

52.   Earlier this year, Danone made an unsuccessful joint bid with Cadbury Schweppes PLC to buy Nabisco Holdings Corp., but was beat out by Philip Morris Cos.

53.   Garzon used that same law in an unsuccessful bid to put former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on trial in Spain.

54.   He also made an unsuccessful bid to land an expansion baseball franchise that would have split its home games among four cities.

55.   He emerged as the leading candidate to replace Sam Wyche after Tampa Bay made unsuccessful bids to land Jimmy Johnson and Steve Spurrier.

56.   He made an unsuccessful bid for the GOP nomination this year.

57.   It was his third unsuccessful presidential bid.

58.   Leeds has been in contact with Parma before, making an unsuccessful bid to buy Colombian striker Faustino Asprilla.

59.   Ostersund, which once bid with Lahti, has made nine straight unsuccessful bids.

60.   Saez, who earned a reputation as an able administrator when she was mayor of an affluent Caracas municipality, made an unsuccessful bid for the presidency last December.