This quickly fell apart, because it failed to guarantee Mr Zelaya's reinstatement, or require Honduras's Congress to vote on this before the election.

ECONOMIST: Honduras's presidential election

Regulatory pressures have failed to guarantee ethical behavior and social responsibility in corporate America, and efforts at self-management have fallen short time and again.

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For instance, reformers failed to win a broad guarantee that poor people would have access to a lawyer.

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Shadow international development minister Ivan Lewis said the minister had failed to give a "cast iron guarantee" the bill would be in the Queen's Speech.

BBC: International Development questions

In other waiting time statistics, it was revealed that only seven people failed to be treated within a new NHS waiting guarantee of 12 weeks.

BBC: A&E department

In order for this plan to work, legislation would need to take effect before the withdrawal of the FDIC guarantee in October, so that FDIC procedures for handling failed banks can be applied to bank-holding companies.

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