Although the system is designed to failover to a back-up switch, the failover did not function as previously tested.

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Mr Djindjic said early elections were possible if the expulsions did not work and parliament could not function due to the lack of a quorum.

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BP, which had been leasing the rig from Transocean, says the safety device that was supposed to cut oil flow on the ocean floor in the event of a well blowout did not perform its function.

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And their function did not seem to be impaired.

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In hindsight, it is now obvious that BC did not have the fortitude to function as a dependable repository for the tapes, and that the scholars should have retained them so that they would have the option of exercising their own moral and professional judgments in the event of a subpoena.

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In other words, although Anderson saw, as Keynesians did not, that interest rates are a function of economic growth, he also saw, as some modern supply siders do not, that interest rates are not identical to economic growth.

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Patients in a phase III trial for tarenflurbil, a drug that showed promise in an earlier phase II trial, did not experience improvement in cognition or daily function compared with those who received a placebo, according to a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Because the city continued to function well, most businesses did not leave, property values have risen, and tourism has returned.

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Not only did it improve patients' lung function, it lowered the amount of salt in their sweat, a sign that it may combat CF at its biological root.

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The trial did not meet its primary endpoint, a joint rank analysis of function and survival, and no efficacy was seen in the individual components of function or survival.

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He might have added that willingness is often a function of wages, but for some reason he did not.

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