The pro-embargo folks are ignoring the policy's epic failure and fail to recognize that U.S. policy has played into the hands of the Castro brothers, who have sinisterly used it to make the case to their people that if Cuba is starving and the island economy can't grow, it's because of this U.S. policy.
Their point number three tells us that the best way to avoid failure is to fail constantly.
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However, if we have the chance to fail when failure has the least ramifications, then we have the opportunity for the greatest growth.
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The markets panicked because they could not determine who was going to fail next, how the failure would be handled or whether anyone was in charge.
Too-big-to-fail banking could have been the failure of regulators and lawmakers in another decade, as Mr. Weill suggests.
If the systems removing the heat from the reactors(even during shut down) fail, you will have a failure of the entire system.
Doha may well fail but it is a failure that has been instigated by an intransigent and hypocritical West.
Call it simplistic, but the single greatest fix for the banks would be a scrapping of all regulations that have never worked to begin with, followed by a one line law: If you fail, we will not cushion your failure.
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Netflix has learned to never fail the same way twice and actively tests failure to automate recovery for the future.
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The two main aims of the new laws are to make banks less likely to fail in the first place and, if failure is inevitable, to make it less painful for others.
It is difficult enough to decode "OMG" (Oh my God) "BFF" (best friends forever) and "GTG" (got to go), let alone understand why it's funny to call something a "fail" (but not a "failure").
"Systemic risk" (the risk that the failure of one financial institution could cause other interconnected institutions to fail and harm the economy as a whole).
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Stock transactions are supposed to settle within three days, and if the shares fail to be delivered to the buyer, that failure is reported to the SEC and to the national stock markets, which keep track of repeated trade failures.
If you fail in some or all of these duties and your failure is serious enough, the matter can become criminal.
"Many in this chamber understand that America must not fail in Iraq, because you understand that the consequences of failure would be grievous and far reaching, " he said.
Contrast that with the stench of failure in the drug industry, where experimental medicines are more likely to fail than succeed, and pharmaceutical developers like Pfizer have seen their biggest bets bite the dust.
If the regulating valves fail or if the cabin structure is breached (by a failure of a door or window for example) then the pressure in the cabin would suddenly drop to match the outside air pressure.
Asking too-big-to-fail banks to write resolution plans in the event of their failure is like giving an obese eater a free pass to neighborhood buffets and demanding that he draft a diet plan in case he dies.
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Contrast that with the stench of failure in the drug industry, where experimental medicines are more likely to fail than succeed, and pharmaceutical developers like Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) have seen their biggest bets bite the dust.
"The failure of Greece, " he said, "would be the failure of all Europe... it is not possible to let Greece fail, for moral and economic reasons".
Khosla himself usually turns down speaking engagements engagements, so it is a window into his emphasis on failure and its lessons that he accepted the invitation to be a speaker at Fail-Con, a conference held in San Francisco that analyzes ventures that have failed and the lessons they learned in the process.
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If Spurs fail to win the league, at least it will be a glorious failure.
At that point, it is vital that that participant be allowed to fail, to demonstrate to all other market participants where the point of failure in the pricing structure is.
Bad work habits and the failure to change course contribute to the statistic that more than half of small businesses fail within the first five years, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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She thinks that the failure of Japan Leasing suggests that many more non-banks will now be allowed to fail.
If that were the case, the conservatives would fail to make the second round of the presidential vote, mirroring the Socialists' failure to reach the run-off in 2002.
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New leaders often fail for a few common reasons: due to unclear or outsized expectations, a failure to build partnerships with key stakeholders, a failure to learn the company, industry or the job itself fast enough, a failure to determine the process for gaining commitments from direct reports and a failure to recognize and manage the impact of change on people.
And now that failure is in some ways seen as a badge of honor in Silicon Valley better to fail than to play it too safe and not take any risks he was wise to be honest later in the letter that he did fail.
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This piece of legislation would have the hopefully unintended consequence of criminalizing a failure by a doctor and prosecuting a doctor for criminal behavior if he or she were somehow to fail to intuit the motivations of a patient in making a very private medical decision.
First, it is often clear that the researchers conducting these studies wanted to find such a positive relationship, and I cannot suppress a suspicion that there might be just as many studies conducted that fail to turn up the same heart-warming evidence but, as a result of this failure, therefore are not published, and hence we never hear about them.
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