The biggest supply-side obstacle to future growth may no longer be (if it ever was) excessive regulation or inflexible labour markets, but a corporate culture that finds it easy to tolerate low returns and difficult to tolerate outright failure.
It is widely acknowledged that the "resignation" Craig tendered in November of last year was the result of his failure to manage the difficult politics involved in shutting Gitmo down.
Degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's may turn out to be more difficult to model because they involve the failure of more than just brain cells, Markram says.
Analysts expect that the failure of Solyndra could make it difficult for other clean energy ventures to tap into federal loans as a source of funds.
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Only by understanding the subtle genetic variations among hundreds of thousands of people--by sifting out the molecular misnomers that predispose someone to a particular malady--will scientists learn how to better predict, diagnose and ultimately cure difficult diseases like diabetes, schizophrenia and heart failure.
Only by understanding the subtle genetic variations in hundreds of thousands of people--by sifting out the molecular misnomers that predispose someone to a specific malady--will scientists learn how to better predict, diagnose and ultimately cure such difficult diseases as diabetes, schizophrenia and heart failure.
Treating heart failure in the hospital has been a difficult task for drug developers.
As lawmakers become ever so comfortable in the power and prestige of their positions, the most difficult action they could ever take is to admit failure and get out of the way.
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She believes the NHS will be left with the difficult, complicated work which will drive hospitals into financial failure.
"Ensuring accountability for any failure to comply with international law is also difficult when drone attacks are conducted outside the military chain of command", she added.
Failure to do so may create problems even more difficult to unscramble.
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Molitor says hard economic times are particularly difficult for people with Type A personalities, especially those who have never experienced failure.
They fear it will be far more difficult to find another opportunity or another job after a business or a project failure, because others will question their competence or even their worth.
" Yet it had been so difficult and so often had the start-up tottered on the edge of failure that another of the venture capitalists lamented, "The suffering and anxiety I experienced I would not repeat for a fortune.
Observers say failure to secure a sale at a favourable price could make it more difficult to sell other, less profitable assets in the future.
While the difficult economic climate at the time and other factors may have hastened the firm's failure, the risky business strategy and conduct by Corzine and his team helped fuel its demise, it says.
The failure to modernize comes to the detriment of our airmen and pilots, making their jobs more difficult and dangerous, and costs more money in the long run.
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