But the result in terms of dealing with the basic problem is failure.
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After a five-year trial ending in 1982, gender-integrated basic training was declared a failure.
The current failure to deliver basic skills of numeracy and literacy during the day should be addressed as a "matter of urgency".
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To make basic what already is, failure signals an economy on the mend simply because the bad business ideas, investments and labor misuses are cleansed from the economy.
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But Rockwood's mismanagement and failure to understand basic hydraulics proved devastating, as heavy rains pushed the Colorado's muddy water over its banks in 1905, destroying nearly 100, 000 acres of newly planted crops.
Underinvestment and chronic lack of capacity led, inevitably, to a failure to meet even basic standards.
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The failure to make even basic investments in foreign policy has been pervasive, and the examples are legion.
According to Pinsker, what distinguished exile Jews from all other nations was the Jews' failure to understand this basic truth.
Clinton's behavior bespeaks a stunning failure to understand the basic realities she and the State Department she leads are supposed to shape.
Watching the speech in his living room, economist Orlando Ochoa said the failure to invest in basic services will soon hinder such growth.
Meanwhile, future-focused consumer advocates seem to be giving CMS a free pass on its current failure to provide a basic, reliable and usable tool.
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"This failure to complete the basic quality assurance checks Pearson confirmed that they had completed is deeply disturbing, " city schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said in a prepared statement.
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Yet we now live in a society and era for whom it is a basic axiom that the success or failure of grown-up life is directly tied to the quality of the care one receives in childhood.
But in fact, this failure can bedevil our most basic economic decisions.
The report also found police failed to follow up "basic" lines in the inquiry, including a failure to obtain statements from the victim or eyewitness, and a failure to arrest and interview Grant while examining his car.
CLINTON'S STATEMENT makes clear the basic and disturbing consistency of the administration's failure to understand that there are regimes that are inherently hostile to the US and will remain irreconcilably hostile to the US regardless of what it does or who sits in the White House.
Taking the time to reduce everything to basic principles can make all the difference between success and failure.
As we noted yesterday, Bloomberg View responded to its failure with an editorial calling into question the basic American system of government.
If there will be no resolution in the Security Council, it will be basically a failure of the international community to adhere to the basic rules that were already laid down with respect to the possible exit from the conflict about a month ago by the G8 leaders.
"Our grief is exacerbated by the failure of his employers at MI6 to take even the most basic inquiries as to his whereabouts and welfare, which any reasonable employer would have taken, " he said.
The more dramatic its decisions, and the more basic to its business those decisions are, the more potentially fateful is that failure to communicate.
We in government never tired of saying - alongside so many public service leaders themselves, frustrated at past failure - that it had to be money tied to reform to ensure that basic standards were defined and delivered in each service.
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