Earls, who has just turned 21, has been in electric form for Munster this season after failing to edge his way into the team last season.

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Kallis was also given a lifeline when 44, Marcus Trescothick failing to hold onto a low edge diving at slip, after the unfortunate Giles turned one out of the rough.

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Lucent botched a shift in demand to cutting-edge gear for fiber optics, failing to recognize telecom companies' hunger for bandwidth and then reacting too slowly to stop them from defecting to archrival Nortel Networks.

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