No country that has begun such talks has ever failed to be offered membership.
And while the rules left abuse and excess unchecked, they also left taxpayers on the hook if a big bank or financial institution ever failed.
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The agency did not say that Armstrong ever failed a test, but his former teammates testified as to how they beat tests or avoided the tests altogether.
Advisers must find out if a work has been shopped to death or ever failed to sell at auction, offer a report on the work's condition, judge how significant the piece was in the artist's career and then ascertain that the piece is neither stolen nor fake.
In November, Van Gogh's last ever work failed to sell at a New York auction.
On Monday, scientists will get more clues to one of the pharmaceutical industry's biggest mysteries: how it is that Pfizer 's drug to raise good cholesterol, on which more money was being spent than any other drug ever, failed?
On Monday, scientists will get more clues to one of the pharmaceutical industry's biggest mysteries: how it is that Pfizer 's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) drug to raise good cholesterol, on which more money was being spent than any other drug ever, failed?
The performance of individual financial institutions was judged by their profits, their capital cushions and their risk-management systems, which were supposedly becoming ever more sophisticated but failed to detect the approaching systemic collapse.
The largest-ever study of niacin has failed to show a clinical benefit for niacin and even found a strong signal of harm.
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Translation: They were almost three times better than an average NL club, the best mark ever for a team that failed to go all the way.
Liverpool brought on youth team star Jack Robinson, aged just 16 and eight months, who became the club's youngster-ever first-team player but they failed to find a way through.
"None of the ABA's promises were coming true, " added Gavin, 23, who won Britain's first ever world amateur gold in 2007 but who failed to make the weight in Beijing.
Morocco were at the first ever World Youth Championship in Tunisia in 1977 but they failed cover themselves in glory, suffering three straight defeats.
An attempt to require the EPA to regulate emissions from automobiles failed in the Senate version before the amendments ever went to the Conference Committee.
Exactly why the Pfizer drug failed won't be known for months, if ever.
Gates has far more work ahead of him than he ever did at Microsoft, solving problems like malaria, AIDS and failed urban public education.
But despite clocking the world's second fastest ever time in the 4x100m, there was slight feeling of disappointment when they failed to set a new mark.
Not to treat Mr George's acquittal as a miscarriage of justice "went behind the decision of the jury that acquitted him" and failed to take account of the fact that no safe conviction could ever be based on the evidence against him, the QC said.
Ever since 1991 both sides have raised problems but now diplomatic sources say that the Moroccans are causing ever more delays because their strategy of packing the voters rolls with their own citizens has failed.
As we all know, the rescue plan gave a trillion dollars to major banks to get them through the disaster, and the government then brokered the takeover of the failed and failing by the handful of largest firms, making them bigger than ever.
If you ever go into an interview without knowing what quotes you want to see, you have already failed miserably.
Chelsea, which recently became the first ever defending holder to exit the Champions League at the Group Stage, had its chances to equalize but failed to hit the target.
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