That is the coma that filmmaker Annalisa Piras and I diagnose as the Italian condition: economic stagnation, yes, but also a failure of consciousness and responsibility, which is in effect a moral failure.
But it would have a similar effect to the failure of Bill Clinton's health-care reform early in his presidency.
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Fuller disclosure needs to be supported by measures to reduce the contagion effect of a failure by, for example, reducing uncollateralised interbank exposures among European banks.
Because bankruptcy laws attempt to overcome this market failure, they are, in effect, a state-imposed system of universal financial-distress insurance.
There is a bicycle effect in trade: failure to go forward creates a risk that the existing system topples to the ground.
Because banks provide credit and operate the payments system, their failure can have a more damaging effect on the economy than the collapse of other businesses.
If the FDA reviewed the data and negotiated the text of the drug label, how can Levine sue for failure to warn about a side effect?
The hi-tech system was introduced with one main purpose - to eliminate the possibility of vote-rigging, and give the Kenyan electorate faith in the count - but our correspondent says the failure could end up having the opposite effect.
Alas, the therapeutic effect has been undermined by the failure of the coach, Stuart Pearce, to select any Scottish or Northern Irish players in his squad.
But the lower capital gains and dividend rate don't expire until Dec. 31, 2008 and Silverblatt doubts Congress' failure to act this year would have much effect.
He understood that the unilateral U.S. disarmament that would, in effect, result from our continued failure to modernize Americas chemical arsenal could invite lethal chemical attacks against us and our allies.
The effect of a Bush-Cheney failure to provide any additional financial resources to the Pentagon to say nothing of the large sums truly required would be fully to implicate the new team in its predecessor's appalling treatment of the U.S. military, and dangerously to perpetuate the armed services' present inadequate ability to deter and, if necessary to fight, the nation's wars.
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The failure to vote or an abstention has the same effect as a vote against the proposed combination.
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This early failure in the Japanese market has a compounding negative effect on worldwide console sales, as game developers are less willing to invest in high-risk projects for console platforms that are shaky out-of-the-gates, which makes it less attractive for gamers to buy these consoles, and so on.
Failure to use the latest three-dimensional modelling software meant nobody anticipated the effect of using lightweight aluminium wiring rather than copper, which is to make bends in the wiring looms bulkier.
Over time, the practical effect of combining the draconian nuclear cuts Mr. Obama seeks and his failure to arrest and reverse the atrophying of the obsolescing arsenal will leave us functionally disarmed.
The cumulative effect of these and other changes in law that would follow from a failure to reenact the Patriot Act will be to put the Nation at greater risk of terrorist attack.
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The starkest failure was peacemaking in Palestine, which Mr Obama made a priority but where American peacemaking had in effect collapsed by 2011.
The judge ruled there had been a failure by a public inquiry inspector "properly to interpret and apply the relevant planning policies on the effect of development on the setting of heritage sites, which meant that the balancing exercise was flawed".
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It identifies income inequality and unsustainable government debts as the two issues most likely to have an effect on the global community over the coming decade, and warns of a major systemic financial failure as the most devastating potential outcome.
In this era of drug-spending cutbacks and safety panics it would seem like a recipe for failure: a drug that helps only a fifth of patients and might even have a rare, dangerous side effect.
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