71.   Indonesian interest rates have surged in an unsuccessful attempt to protect the currency.

72.   It was a pathetically unsuccessful attempt by a lonely schoolteacher to bind this man to her.

73.   Kaye, who made one unsuccessful attempt to contact Ashbrook by phone after receiving the letters, invited him to send a letter to the editor.

74.   La Jornada said Salinas departed Mexico after an unsuccessful attempt to talk to Zedillo by telephone.

75.   Last September, the Democrats who control the Assembly vetoed the plan in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to force the governor to contribute more state money to it.

76.   Later still, in an unsuccessful attempt to flee Cuba, he floats out to sea on an inner tube.

77.   Later, he took his camera for a few more unsuccessful attempts to engage Moore at public events outside the office.

78.   Lawyers for Grammer went into federal court last week in an unsuccessful attempt to block prosecutors from playing the tapes for the grand jury.

79.   Leeson granted the interview in an apparently unsuccessful yWfailed attempt to help convince the U.K. government to seek his extradition, Kempf said.

80.   Ms. Miele of Metro Grill said an unsuccessful attempt to make chips with the red bliss inspired her to try Yukons.