Many figured that it was too big and too established to fall to a hostile bidder until Vodafone captured it last year.

FORBES: A headache in Leverkusen

Too big to rely on air bags to cushion its fall as with previous Mars landers, Curiosity landed through an automated system of high-speed maneuvers, a supersonic parachute, eight retro-rockets and a set of "sky-crane" tethers that lowered the vehicle gently the last few feet to the ground.

WSJ: NASA's Curiosity Rover Lands on Mars

Decades to build indeed, but as it has reached the mountaintop, some would argue that the NFL believes it is now too big to fail despite allowing its brand standards of perfection to fall by the wayside.

FORBES: Beyond the Refs: Reputation Of NFL Shield Heads Down Slippery Slope

The Grizzlies struggled to penetrate the defense and got few easy looks, missing eight straight shots in a span of more than six minutes early in the game to fall into a hole that proved too big to overcome.

WSJ: Syracuse blows past Montana 81-34 in NCAA opener

The Grizzlies struggled to penetrate the defense and got few easy looks, missing eight straight shots in a span of more than 6 minutes early in the game to fall into a hole that proved too big to overcome.

WSJ: Syracuse blows past Montana 81-34 in NCAA opener

The XV6900 isn't content to just fall in line and play "me too, " though -- Big Red decided to go with a blindingly glossy white finish, bucking the soft-touch black used as a staple of the Touch line, and that could be a boon or a bust depending on who you are and how you intend to use the device.

ENGADGET: Verizon XV6900 hands-on Mobile

None of the big accountancy firms wants churn rates to fall too far, if only to keep the performance bar high.

ECONOMIST: Talent management

Mr Dornbusch answered that the initial fall in the currency will have to be, as it were, too big.

ECONOMIST: Rudiger Dornbusch