41.  She supported an unsuccessful effort earlier this year to amend the Constitution to allow limits on campaign spending.

42.  The Clinton administration sent the Rev. Jesse Jackson to Lagos in an unsuccessful effort to end a crippling, yearlong crisis in Nigeria.

43.  The latest victims are a small group of Iraqis who worked with the Central Intelligence Agency in recent years in an unsuccessful effort to weaken Saddam Hussein.

44.  The subject of marijuana was raised in the last round of collective bargaining, part of an unsuccessful effort by the league to update the drug policy.

45.  The white dogs with black markings growled fiercely at deputies who maintained a vigil on the property while unsuccessful efforts were made to contact their owner.

46.  Their unsuccessful efforts damaged their party more than Clinton, who is still popular with voters.

47.  This Frankenstein fellow experimented with cadavers in an unsuccessful effort to restore life to the dead.

48.  Three Enron executives flew to New York in an unsuccessful effort to convince her editors that she was wrongheaded.

49.  Two years later, when Pompidou died, Chaban-Delmas began an unsuccessful effort to become president.