71.   Some analysts said the failed bid could start a bidding war for Quaker and its much sought-after Gatorade sports drink brand.

72.   That was the pledge by Bosnian Croat nationalists in their failed bid to secede and join Croatia.

73.   The Bank of Norway has increased interest rates seven times this year in a failed bid to fend off speculation against the krone.

74.   The company has been radically expanding internationally, and bought Trafalgar a few months after a failed hostile bid for another British company, AMEC PLC.

75.   The announcement pointed out that Luzzatto had also worked for the failed presidential bids of Democrats Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis.

76.   The deal follows a failed takeover bid for BLC by Byblos Bank in May.

77.   The false information also may have helped SBC gain approval for long-distance service in Oklahoma after two failed bids, according to published reports.

78.   The five youths entered the compound in a failed bid to gain political asylum.

79.   The failed bid to protect Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan from a Turkish manhunt left Greece embarrassed and embattled around the world.

80.   The group blamed its losses mostly on its investments in unprofitable rivals in a failed bid to cobble together a global airline alliance.