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One member of the public at the meeting said the level of interest in the dispute was due to widespread scepticism about politicians because of previous failed projects in the island.
BBC: Waterfront handover is 'best option'
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Russia, which was critical of the tax levy on bank accounts because its locals account for nearly all of the foreign accounts on the island, failed to offer Cyprus financial support on Wednesday.
FORBES: Cyprus Gets Thrown New Life Line
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Three months later, Shackleton regained the makeshift camp at Elephant Island, after two failed attempts.
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This, unfortunately, is something we saw several times early on, with a veritable Island of Doctor Moreau full of failed, mutant plastic experiments.
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The link between Guernsey and Jersey failed in April causing power to be generated on island, which costs more.
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Press reports from Moscow said Wednesday that Cyprus Finance Minister Michalis Sarris failed to win assistance from Russia after the Mediterranean island nation rejected an E.
FORBES: Russia Won't Save Cyprus After All
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Guernsey's Deputy Chief Minister, Bernard Flouquet, has failed in his bid for re-election in the island's 2012 general election.
BBC: Guernsey's Deputy Chief Minister fails to get re-elected
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Throughout 1998, Richard Holbrooke, President Bill Clinton's emissary, tried and failed to revive talks between the two parts of the fractured island.
ECONOMIST: Cyprus
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Having tried and failed to get anywhere with incremental changes in recent years, Rhode Island will soon have a hybrid pension structure that puts the bulk of contributions into a 401(k)-type plan that public workers can take with them to other jobs.
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Nobody bats 1, 000, of course--not even the master, and many of the things Verne predicted have failed to appear, such as the movable 10-square-mile island built by a group of millionaires in Propeller Island (1895): Home to a large city, it moved around the Pacific Ocean on electric power.
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"If we were to remove 99.9% of them, we've failed, " he says of the estimated millions of rats on the 100-mile-long mountainous island.
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