Employees must bring enough value to the firm to cover compensation costs or the firm will fail (Hostess, for example, and now our public schools and local governments, have this problem).

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Your photos fail to show, for example, that metres away from these half-finished benches are also newly-planted formal gardens, box hedges, roses, and sunflowers that, once mature, will teem with tortoisshell and swallowtail butterflies.

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Human-caused climate change is but one example of what occurs when we fail to do so.

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For example, if our laptop were to fail at a trade show, being able to access the camera menu and switch to our phones or tablets would make a great backup.

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Hurricane Sandy has been a vivid example of how quickly the air travel system can fail when things start to snowball.

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In Europe, for example, as many as 50 percent of Roma children fail to complete primary education.

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Let me use an example to illustrate why many of our solutions to social problems fail because we overlook that we are facing an entrepreneurial problem.

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Example: 20% of workers at some of Michigan's unionized auto plants fail to show up on any given day.

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If the regulating valves fail or if the cabin structure is breached (by a failure of a door or window for example) then the pressure in the cabin would suddenly drop to match the outside air pressure.

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