Today's schemes are more modest, and so more plausible, than the failed bids of the 1980s.
After Pyeongchang's two failed bids, securing the Winter Olympics became a test of national pride.
She reviewed three failed bids, for Mellon Bank, Dime Bancorp and Great Western Financial.
She participated in Morocco's two failed bids for the soccer World Cups of 2006 and 2010.
MadBid appears to make most of its money from failed bids.
The failed bids in Britain and the Netherlands illustrate how difficult executing that strategy is going to be.
Al-Fahim also put in failed bids on Monday for Valencia's David Villa and Stuttgart's Mario Gomez.
The depth of support for the Games after two previous failed bids was Paris's emotional sales pitch.
In Clitheroe, a town in northern England, a plan to turn an ex-church into a mosque wins planning approval after seven failed bids.
The prime minister, Iveta Radicova, has threatened to resign after two failed bids to vote in a new prosecutor-general in place of the incumbent, Dobroslav Trnka.
He has been on the hunt for mobile operators, but recently made a string of failed bids, including a high-profile attempt to take over Sprint Nextel.
