But if he fails the test the comparison implies, he will not only fail to be Reagan, he will fail to be the candidate he might have been in his own right.
Mr Diamond also told MPs that he believed that banks should be allowed to fail and not be bailed out by taxpayers.
For example, rebuilding the local water treatment plant, but forgetting to fix the electrical grid that powers the facility, should be a fail.
"That was to be the fail-safe in case of an accident, " says LamarMcKayLamar McKay, chairman of BP America, adding that the blowout protector--like the rig itself--was owned by Transocean.
"That was to be the fail-safe in case of an accident, " says Lamar McKay , chairman of BP America, adding that the blowout protector--like the rig itself--was owned by Transocean.
Google and Asus have a window of opportunity, as Apple, Amazon and other tablet manufacturers consider their response to this high-powered, low-priced market disruptor: the worst thing they could do would be to fail to meet demand during that window.
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All others will be dealt with swiftly and sternly, and those whose applications fail will be removed without the chance of a protracted appeal.
But perhaps its main fear should be that schools fail to take the idea seriously.
It would be awful to fail as an outright beginner philosopher when the course has hardly started.
How much has finance lost thanks to the false view that banks cannot be allowed to fail?
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She thinks that the failure of Japan Leasing suggests that many more non-banks will now be allowed to fail.
He insisted that British Energy, the languishing nuclear operator, should be allowed to fail, although he lost that particular battle.
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Prof Zehra Sayers of Sabanci University in Istanbul says Sesame is so valuable that it cannot be allowed to fail.
Rivalries were poisonous, based on the principle that it was not enough to succeed: others had to be seen to fail.
Because, as I said, if Greece was too big to be allowed to fail, California or Illinois are even bigger than that.
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The first mocks would-be entrepreneurs who fail to act on their ideas (solution: we make it easy to protect your new trademark).
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The two companies were implicitly backed by the U.S. government, which in practical terms meant that they would not be allowed to fail.
There would be hellish choices about which banks are perceived to be too big to fail, and whether lower-risk retail banks should be charged less.
These proof points must be, without fail, catalytic experiences, strong enough and believable enough to break the long-anchored associations that consumers have regarding the brand.
Healthy banks do not want TARP and the troubled banks need TARP to provide capital to stay afloat when they should be allowed to fail.
Sounds smart but it turned out to be an epic fail.
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On Thursday Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson told Congress that large financial institutions should be allowed to fail, but sidestepped questions about whether that included Fannie and Freddie.
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.
The biggest banks will not be allowed to fail.
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The Fibonacci retracement resistance levels calculated from the October high (point 1) and the January low (point 3) allowed one to define the levels where the rally could be expected to fail.
Which leads to my amusement, puzzlement perhaps, about those parts of the American left who do argue that gas consumption must be cut but fail to urge those policies which have been proven to work elsewhere.
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