31.  One is Daniel Gecker, a Richmond, Va. lawyer who represented Willey and undertook an unsuccessful effort to secure tabloid and book deals for Willey.

32.  Philosophical counselors cannot be licensed, despite an unsuccessful legislative effort in New York to allow licensing.

33.  Progress in the UAW talks with Ford comes after GM yesterday made an eleventh-hour offer in an unsuccessful effort to shape an agreement more to its liking.

34.  Pelosi helped lead the unsuccessful effort in the House to block permanent normal trade relations with China.

35.  President Bush has recently proposed an education tax credit at the federal level, after making an unsuccessful effort last year to get a federal voucher program.

36.  Prosecutors would also say he was the force behind an unsuccessful effort to extort a bribe from a company seeking a cable television franchise in Queens.

37.  Raising the health care issue also allows Dole to remind voters of the role that Hillary Rodham Clinton played in directing the unsuccessful White House effort.

38.  Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio, who heads the House Budget Committee, earlier this month led an unsuccessful effort to kill the program.

39.  Russian rescue teams made several more unsuccessful efforts on Thursday to try to lock onto a rear escape hatch of the Kursk.

40.  Seventeen years later, after years of unsuccessful efforts by their mother to reach the United States, the Dos were reunited.