Mr Lawlor resigned from Fianna Fail last year, after failing to co-operate with an internal party inquiry into alleged planning corruption.
Twenty five percent of the companies in the industry are expected to fail this year, due to excess capacity and falling prices.
"I think a lot of people expected us to fail this year, so it's a bit of a bonus to be where we are, " said Robinson.
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.
The FDIC closed only one bank last Friday bringing the total for 2010 to 109 failures still on track for my prediction that 150 to 200 banks will fail this year.
But if a school continues to fail its students year after year after year, if it doesn't show signs of improvement, then there's got to be a sense of accountability.
"Perhaps it will not fail within this year, but I don't think Sharp has a viable business in the next three to five years, " said Tetsuro Ii, chief executive of Commons Asset Management in Tokyo.
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Every second, every day, every year we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services.
Now for something really scary: Almost 90% of more than 15, 000 products introduced this year will fail, according to trade publication New Product News.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that if the rains fail later in the year, some 3.6m Somalis, or about a third of the country, will be in need of international assistance.
Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, worries that a symbolic or partisan feint at reform this year could fail and then simply make it impossible to muster the support that will be needed from both parties in 2011.
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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.
On average, 20% of start-ups fail within their first year, according to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which also conducts an annual study on entrepreneurial activity in the U.S. Its newest report, due out next month, is expected to show that start-up volume in the U.S. increased by just a few percentage points in 2011, just as it did in 2010, 2009 and 2008, says E.
Even if you fail to conceive within a year your chances of conceiving subsequently are still substantial.
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Plymouth face the threat of being wound up in the new year if they fail to clear their tax bill before their next date at the High Court on 9 February.
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It included plans for putting the bottom 10% of staff on probation and fired after a year if they fail to improve and ministers being given the power to choose who runs departments.
These could see the worst performing 10% of staff face being fired after a year if they fail to improve, new delivery methods for services, and ministers given the power to choose who runs departments.
In June, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude published a package of reforms to the civil service, including plans for putting the bottom 10% of staff on probation and fired after a year if they fail to improve and ministers being given the power to choose who runs departments.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., we face the fiscal cliff of tax increases and spending cuts equal to 5% of GDP should Congress and the President fail to take preemptive action before year end.
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Research that has looked at the medical records of 2, 000 breast cancer patients taking tamoxifen suggests half of women fail to finish a five-year course of the drug and one in five regularly forget to take a tablet.
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New sunscreen labels in effect this year require a pass-fail test for UVA and UVB protection.
Most likely, it will fail to do so again both this year and next.
Perhaps if the ballots fail to get off the ground this year, the whole thing could be abandoned.
Of the 36, 000-plus new products that will hit the shelves in the U.S. this year, 80% will fail, says New Product News.
It might then fail to repeat its triumph in last year's polls.
According to Hamre, the power grids and other critical public services likely will be the first systems to fail in these countries because of the Year 2000 bug.
This is critically important because more than half of those who enter community colleges fail to either earn a two-year degree or transfer to a earn a four-year degree.
It is estimated that every year about 7 million children fail to attend school or drop out of school before completing primary education, thus about 60 million Bangladeshis are functionally illiterate.
These agreements are be reviewed and approved by the Office For Fair Access (Offa) each year, with institutions that fail to meet their agreed targets on recruitment and retention facing fines or losing the right to charge higher fees.
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