1.   The accusations of incompetence after the botched attempt to support the anti-Noriega coup in October had stung the Bush Administration.

2.   He was a young man who had discovered and demonstrated that goals can be reached no matter how many obstacles and botched attempts lie in the way.

3.   TWO cousins started a fire in a tower block to cover up their botched attempts at a DIY job.

4.   And there were some botched attempts at provocative storylines.

5.   A botched attempt to create a fantasy adventure about Old West legends who come to life to help a boy save his ranch.

6.   But some Republicans suggested that Enron was being used as a whipping boy by Californians for their own botched attempt at deregulating their electricity market.

7.   But the inning quickly fizzled when Palmeiro was thrown out at second on a botched hit-and-run attempt.

8.   Curiously, they never seemed to learn from their previous botched attempts or even remember them from one trial to the next.

9.   For Deutsche Telekom, the deal with Voicestream comes after several botched attempts to expand beyond its borders.

10.   Head coach Joe Bugel was asked how many of the snaps were poor in the botched attempts.