He came to the conclusion that a stand-alone iWatch would fail all three.
Mr. Hayward and BP have taken the position that this tragedy is all about a fail-safe blow-out preventer (BOP) failing, but in reality the BOP is really the backup system, and yes we expect that it will work.
What really alarms the grammar-school heads is the fact that even if all the petitions fail this year, the antis can re-start the process next year.
Extremely well-paid money managers fail at this all the time.
The Mighty Eagle is the game's fail-safe option, a bird that destroys all it touches.
The most debilitating symptom of depression is obsessive self-consciousness: All our distractions fail us, and we just can't seem to find anything worth losing ourselves in.
It is reported that around half of all university under-graduates fail to complete their courses, and a serious skills shortage in the country continues to hold back the growth of the economy.
Still, while Lin is one of the NBA's most marketable players, he could fail to live up to all the hype his 2011-12 season generated.
After all, other than its yield, is cash held in the form of liquid Treasury notes all the different than cash held in the vaults of the Federal Reserve, especially when the Federal Reserve stands ready to buy those Treasury notes from any and all too-big-to-fail sellers essentially on demand, if need be?
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Dozens of startups chasing the trend will fail, as marketplaces like these always prove winner-take-all.
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Increased size equals increased interconnectedness between all the too-big-to-fail banks.
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In fact, it would be useful to understand all the things the too-big-to-fail problem is not.
What some investors fail to grasp is that the Internet increasingly is producing winner-take-all markets, and Facebook is the biggest winner in the biggest market of them all, our personal relationships.
So when our veterans come home from Iraq and Afghanistan -- and they have performed brilliantly, they have done everything that's been asked of them, regardless of what your views are on these wars -- they have earned these benefits that all too often we fail to give them.
All other so-called creative solutions to the debt crisis will fail.
That's 240 per year. (McDonald's counters that it has lost just 90 franchisees in 2002, many for innocuous reasons like retirement.) Cold comfort for anxious franchisees: While 30% of all restaurants fail within the first year, just 8% of brand-name franchise locations go under, says Christopher Muller, associate professor of restaurant management at the University of Central Florida who studies franchises.
Those plans all sought to expand the universe of too-big-to-fail companies eligible for taxpayer rescue.
Prof Blom conceded that "all hips fail" so some would fail regardless of whether they were metal-on-metal or combination.
As a result, socially-disadvantaged groups have limited access to quality education, while some among them fail to attend school at all.
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All those introductory classes that often wash out half the students -- half the students fail -- they're actually doing some really creative things with technology of driving down costs and increasing passing rates pretty substantially.
In fact, all of SoCal is in the midst of some kind of too-big-to-fail madness.
From the development of the jet engine and liquid crystal displays, from cracking the inner workings of DNA to pioneering work on Lithium-ion batteries, the country has all too often managed to break new scientific ground but then fail to capitalise on the vast potential that others then enjoy.
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