The amount of engineering to avoid failure at Amazon is awesome.

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The failure to sell stakes in large public energy and engineering concerns suggests that Mr Berlusconi thinks that privatisation means raising cash without losing control.

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The failure of the Fort Lauderdale, Fla. company helped push French engineering giant Alstom S.A. to the edge of bankruptcy and forced credit card processors to refund customers who had paid for trips that never happened.

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"It's a classic failure of management and leadership in BP, " said Robert Bea, an engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who previously worked as a safety expert for BP.

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