The low emission zone - which begins in February 2008 - aims to deter the most polluting vehicles from being driven in central London by imposing charges on lorries, coaches and buses that fail to meet low emission standards.
Sometimes, companies set the bar low and fail to meet even the supposedly easy targets.
Christensen's 1997 book, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, describes how new, low-quality products can threaten established ones--such as Nintendo toy cameras threatening mighty Kodak.
Also, if they run low on cash and fail to pay taxes and insurance, they can lose their homes (1 out of 10 borrowers are currently at risk of default for this reason).
On the surface it sounds great, and what customer would fail to appreciate the value of everyday low prices, right?
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It said retailers in Northern Ireland "are more likely to be operating at low levels of volume that fail to exploit economies of scale".
The proposed revisions promise that low-performing schools that fail to improve will be asked to show "dramatic change, " but states and school districts will be held accountable for those shortcomings as well.
The recent round of quantitative easing will fail to keep bond prices high with yields low so we will continue to short the long term Treasury bond, seeing virtually no opportunity in bonds.
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Economists tend to look at statistical aggregates covering high and low end income, and in doing so, fail to study the career paths of individuals.
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Bank loan funds cite historically low default and high recovery rates, but many fail to cite nuances that imply that past performance may not predict future performance.
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If OSI Shares fail to appreciate significantly on their own, Reid notes that the company, with its low price-to-earnings, sales and book value, would make an attractive takeover target.
Google and Asus have a window of opportunity, as Apple, Amazon and other tablet manufacturers consider their response to this high-powered, low-priced market disruptor: the worst thing they could do would be to fail to meet demand during that window.
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After years of ignoring credit risk (big companies were rarely allowed to fail), it was clear that deregulation would encourage banks that had previously lent at uniformly low and undifferentiated margins to start raising and differentiating the price of their lending.
The Fibonacci retracement resistance levels calculated from the October high (point 1) and the January low (point 3) allowed one to define the levels where the rally could be expected to fail.
Its standards for notching wins are low, and the agency has been criticized by federal judges for agreeing to settlements that hurt shareholders and fail to make individuals accountable.
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