SBC's bid for Ameritech, making it clear that, unless the company makes fairly dramatic market-opening concessions, it has a poor chance of winning approval.
With the clock ticking down, Bordeaux had their best two chances - but a combination of poor finishing and superb goalkeeping cost them their chance of a last-four berth.
But we should be striving to increase the opportunities to the poor in this regard, not embracing the fact that the rich have a better chance of survival than the poor.
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It is a bold and welcome admission that has freed them up to write an honest and readable account about the poor that stands a chance of actually yielding results.
Dr Hussey, who was previously director of public health for the north-west of England, said more could be done to "shift the pattern of poor health" and give people a "fair chance of a long and healthy life".
Mr Pfeffer points out that CEOs who presided over three years of poor earnings and led their firms into bankruptcy only faced a 50% chance of losing their jobs (and perfectly successful senior managers are routinely cleaned out when new CEOs take over).
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For poor countries land deals offer a chance to reverse decades of underinvestment in agriculture.
Poor students of whatever race stand a much lower chance of getting into selective schools, as I wrote in May.
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Jones ended a series of impressive runs with poor finishes and Murphy had a half chance when he ran on to Saunders' clearance, but Mitchell blocked the striker's shot from a tight angle.
Ultimately, it's a cost-effective investment in a future when poor kids have the same chance at success as the obsessed-over Grovers of the world.
The point is that if you change the supervision of behavior and the penalties associated with poor behavior, then you stand a better chance to change the offending behavior.
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This incident may show that deep-water drilling is too risky, but it might instead be just a perfect storm of ineffective regulation, poor decision-making, and bad luck, with minimal chance of recurrence.
With little education and, often, poor English skills, they were stuck in limbo, a world of minimum wage jobs with no chance of security or bettering their lives.
On the one hand, this should also give them a better chance of using a mineral resources boom to raise living standards in a country that remains desperately poor.
Despite a poor start Notts have won their last two games and if they win their next two, they have an outside chance of reaching the quarter-finals.
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