But when the aides repeatedly failed to show up, Mr. Fields's girlfriend persuaded him to go into a nursing home.

The focus was on other aspects of the moratorium, and mayoral aides who did know about the ban failed to make an issue of it.

When an aide failed to hail a cab, she stepped into the street to do it herself.

Still, it sprang from a longstanding dispute between two vital city agencies that he and his aides had failed to resolve.

But Federal investigators say Mr. Carey and his top aides still fail to grasp the extent of the problem.

Their respective advisers and aides failed.

Those facts, including Mr. Lake's explanation that an aide had failed to tell his financial adviser to sell the stocks, have been known for months.

But top aides to finance ministers tried and failed to reach an agreement in principle this evening in an effort to settle the issue.

But Mr. Brezenoff's aides apparently failed to take into account either the power or the pride of the police.

Mr. Caruso and his aides also failed to persuade the splinter group to join the main rally.