Blackburn won their only Premier League title in 1995 but have failed to challenge since.
Scotland did draw 12-12 with England at Twickenham in 1989 but have failed to win on their last 12 visits there.
Other economic systems have been innovative enough, but have failed to exploit their innovations or have had big firms but no incentives to innovate.
Several studies have compared the taste of organic food to that of conventional food, but have failed to establish that either is better.
That would be a huge disappointment for Ireland, who had envisaged a quarter-final place at least before the tournament but have failed to rediscover the Six Nations form which raised expectations.
Hindenburg, for instance, and even the torpedoing, just three years after the Titanic sank, of the Lusitania, another great liner whose passenger list boasted the rich and the famous, were calamities that shocked the world but have failed to generate an obsessive preoccupation.
Amarin, which makes a new form of fish oil called Vascepa, could have marketing difficulties because doctors will draw comparisons between the niacin story and that for fish oil medicines, which showed benefit in early, open-label studies but have failed in more recent rigorous ones.
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But these have failed to bring down overall Medicare costs, a key indicator of medical costs generally.
FARC's former enclave, but they have failed to capture or kill any of the top guerrilla leaders.
Lilly won that case in April, but shares have failed to climb.
But they have failed to do enough to accelerate the shift from an export-led economy to one that relies on domestic consumption.
But we have failed adequately to protect the two- or three-foot channel between the browser's display and the brain of the human who uses it.
But these have failed, and anyway many separatists mistrust him.
But they have failed to address the products' fundamental weakness: that a lumpy property portfolio is being sold as a cash asset, tradable at daily prices with limited downside risk.
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But despite that 1996 pledge, Diouf said, resources to finance agricultural programs in developing countries have not only failed to grow but have decreased significantly.
But those efforts have failed to wow investors or do much to bolster the bottom line.
Successive governments have pledged to streamline proceedings but have so far failed to do so.
These were supposed to reverse the coup and restore democracy, but have so far failed.
But these investments have failed to spur the same kind of transformation that the mobile phone industry did.
But they have utterly failed to achieve their objectives of inflaming sectarian conflict and undermining the Iraqi government.
Yes, as Milton Friedman documented, the Fed could have but failed to prevent the great deflation during the 1930s.
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But Wigan have consistently failed to hold on to leads this season and this weakness was once more exposed.
But these moves have failed to reduce interest rates on Argentine debt.
Part of the optimism is due to a rumored private equity buyout, but those rumors have failed to materialize into anything concrete as of yet.
Both players will be out of contract at the end of the season but have so far failed to agree new contracts to stay at Brunton Park.
But those experts have failed, and failed spectacularly.
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Put another way, most companies have recognized that moving decision-making further away from customers has a negative impact on growth, but many companies have failed to take a similar approach to managing their own talent.
GlaxoSmithKline and Merck have both attempted to develop integrase inhibitors, which inhibit the viral DNA from integrating with human DNA. But their drugs have failed in trials due to problems with toxicity and other issues.
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