But 1986 was to prove Mr. Carter's last strong season as his body began to fail him, the result of catching more than 100 games most years.
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He will need a wheelchair, then a ventilator, and odds are he won't survive his 30s as his muscles fail him, his lungs fail to inflate and his heart eventually is unable to keep beating.
In recounting his success, Mr. Khosla is adamant that having a firm and well-thought-out willingness to fail gave him the ability to succeed.
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The folks in Detroit often disagree with Flint, but they never fail to read him.
Not having the experience "of having tried things and had them fail" freed him to think differently about the children's apparel chain, he said.
Djokovic, in contrast, looked tired from a long season that saw him fail to defend his Wimbledon title and lose his first French Open final.
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However, he also has his detractors, people who see him now as a villain and root for him to fail.
His goal tomorrow is to garner 5% of the vote which, succeed or fail, still would leave him far away from his objective of eventually taking the presidency.
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The barrister disputed claims that Mr Moloney may fail to appear if released due to him having moved to the south of England for a period.
His protest was doomed to fail and no one would probably hear of him.
Garfield's aspirations were doomed to fail by forces of opposition too strong for him to overcome.
The judge ordered the two organisations to appear before him on 20 February should they fail to agree on a new date.
What you fail to do is inquire as to what put him in prison to begin with.
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Bishop said that during his campaign Republican leaders told him that 15-20 cities would fail by summer 2011 and that the state would be required to bail them out.
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But Jeter has made a career of defying the expectations of rational people, and telling anyone who questions him that he's not going to fail.
Naveen Jain, CEO of information-technology company Inome, says his own missteps as an entrepreneur led him to urge his 400 employees to "fail fast" if they can, moving on quickly from projects that don't take off.
Tracy's first husband had become a drug dealer, Craig's wife had left him after nine months, and neither wanted to fail again.
There is of course nothing wrong or illegal in soliciting donations for a political party, but commentators agreed that the exchange was likely to damage Mr Gallagher's campaign, associating him with the "toxic" memories of the era when Fianna Fail was in power.
He would not hear her when she reminded him that he also had no one to injure, no one to fail.
Off the field, there is really no need for him to be missed as, in his new backroom role, he can hardly fail to be a massive presence and personality for new coach Simmons to tap into while Saints spend the season squatting at Widnes before moving into a brand new home in 2012.
Not only did Branch fail to receive much in the way of endorsements, but his award also did nothing to help him negotiate a new contract.
All the while, costing the Yankees not only postseason revenue in 2010 if they fail to make the World Series, but then again in the offseason if and when they sign him to the richest contract in hurler history.
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It is that instead of Buffett lending that money to Bank of America and Goldman and any others he is propping up(which in my opinion should be allowed to fail and fail hard so as to prevent their business models from contaminating the economic picture ever again) is for him to use much less of it in a philanthropic manner.
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