In fact, we should have seen this coming as Google's official blog did hint this last month, but we failed to catch that blurred "Yes 4G" logo on the laptop in the blog's photo.
But we have failed adequately to protect the two- or three-foot channel between the browser's display and the brain of the human who uses it.
Our original idea failed but we changed the idea and are trying something new now.
We tried hard, but that doesn't matter because we failed you.
But before we conclude that markets failed, we need a careful analysis of public policy's role in creating this mess.
"Lance and his representatives worked constructively over these last weeks with federal lawyers to resolve this case fairly, but those talks failed because we disagree about whether the Postal Service was damaged, " Luskin said.
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The FDIC has given East West Bancorp some breathing room to deal with the assets of the failed banks, but we wonder if management is having a harder time integrating United Commercial Bank and Washington First International than it originally planned.
Mr Brown's government had been seeking to increase the numbers of homes being built in recent years, but the prime minister admitted that "we failed over many years to build enough houses to meet the need that was there".
This would mean that we have not only failed to make short-term changes to save biodiversity, but that we have also not made the underlying institutional and behavioral changes that would take us off the long-term course we are on toward the catastrophic loss of species and ecosystems by the end of the century.
There are so many of us, but we all feel alone and like we have failed.
With him another man we can't identify but who had failed to appear in court only last week in a case over violence.
It made us acutely aware of how sedentary we were during the day, but failed to actually make us do anything about it.
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We were using traditional back-ups, but they failed to restore.
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Plus, it would be pretty wild if RIM ended up validating a Palm product idea so seemingly doomed that the company killed it dead just four months after it was announced in 2007 -- we're not saying the times haven't changed dramatically, but we'd note the Celio RedFly has thus far failed to blow up the universe.
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We made passing mention of a milestone yesterday, but failed to give it its due.
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But American policy has thus far failed to reflect the strategic interests we have in the region.
Mostly, we just want fixes to previous government efforts that tried but failed to fix a problem that turned out not to need a regulatory solution, or at least not one without an expiration date.
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But given that the Bank of England failed to stop the last financial crisis, can we be confident it will get it right next time?
In any case, I think the lesson to be learned, for those of us who aspire to be good leaders, is not simply that they failed to take the curve at 70 mph on a wet road, but that we can develop capabilities and skills that will help us avoid getting ourselves into a similar situation.
"This is not who we are, " said Booker, who then admonished those who may have witnessed the attack, but failed to report it.
"We are looking for lessons learned not just for the design and certification of the failed battery, but also for knowledge that can be applied to emerging technologies going forward, " Hersman said.
"We've had a police authority for a number of years, they've worked hard, but they failed on one respect which is to connect with people in their policing area and that's one of my primary roles, " he said.
It's now a tool, it's an option that a president should have available to deal with weapons of mass destruction, but it is an option only after diplomacy has failed, which it now emphasizes at the undertake, only after we have tried concerted action together with our allies to resolve these issues peacefully.
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