But health problems, family issues and ill-fated entrepreneurial efforts in Florida and Jamaica took their toll.

President Clinton proposed a form of such competition in his ill-fated effort to remake the nation's health care system in 1993 and 1994.

After that came two ill-fated efforts, Le Laurier and Alexandra's.

Mr. Hoffenberg said he had lost about $300,000 because of his apparently ill-fated effort to become a newspaper publisher.

The invaders hadn't even bothered either to rescue or to kill the survivors of the ill-fated effort to relieve the station.

Republicans bristle at comparisons between their plans and the Clinton Administration's ill-fated efforts.

Dall became involved with the "racist Right's ill-fated efforts at forming a third party".

The Mayor, unaccustomed to being cursed, set in motion an ill-fated effort to fire Rake, who shrugged it off.

Steeltech also lost money in ill-fated efforts to diversify into making jail cells and modules for fast-food restaurants.

Mr. Schledwitz said he also studied the city's ill-fated effort to land a football franchise.