It's not all the big drugmakers' fault.

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It sits atop several big political and social fault lines of our day: trade, technology, growth, education, planning versus chaos and equity versus salary.

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It is hard to find fault with the argument that many big banks have become ungovernable.

ECONOMIST: Face value

The public battle started when a number of big British supermarket groups stated flatly that any systematic fault was as unacceptable in wine as it was in any other product.

ECONOMIST: Plastic wine stoppers

And rather than envision some sort of uber developer, who understands big data, web performance optimization, application middleware, and fault tolerance in a massively distributed environment, we need operations specialists on the development teams.

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Indeed, when he gave his first big press conference last week, his performance was solid to a fault.

ECONOMIST: Christian Sautter, France��s wary finance minister

The halcyon days of big banks with big, multi-year IT projects and loyal-to-a-fault customers are gone.

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And in between, there have been an endless series of deadly shootings across the country, almost daily reports of victims, many of them children, in small towns and big cities all across America -- victims whose -- much of the time, their only fault was being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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Cloud, social, mobile, engagement, Big Vision (formerly Big Data), and a greatly accelerated pace and scale of global business require modern apps, optimized systems, fault-tolerance, full support across cloud and on-premise and a mix of both, and built-in BI and social capabilities.

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