In fact, the two biggest economic disasters of the 20th century--the Great Depression in the 1930s and the Great Inflation of the 1970s--were both the result of catastrophic government mistakes, not a sudden failure of free-market capitalism.
The explosive debut spit in the face of the perception surrounding the Mets' outfield, an outlook that was made worse by the Mets' failure to sign free-agent Michael Bourn.
Particularly egregious is its failure to complete a free-trade pact with Chile, a beacon of light in otherwise frightful South America.
And Grant sprung to the defence of out-of-form goalkeeper Rob Green, whose failure to hold on to a Didier Drogba free-kick that led to Chelsea's goal.
Blunders by police hunting the Night Stalker rapist - including a failure to probe a sighting of his car - left him free for years, a report has said.
Pushing for free market capitalism and a separation of economy and state, they believe the recent economic recession was a result of corrupt capitalism and a Washington-created housing bubble, not a failure of free market capitalism.
Instead, the group pointed to media sensationalism, violent video games, gun-free zones in schools, the failure to enforce gun laws already on the books, issues with the nation's mental health system and other societal problems as feeding the spate of gun violence.
Katana Summit LLC, a Nebraska-based manufacturer of wind-turbine towers is another prospective free market failure.
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Multi-sided business models with a predominance of free services are one reason for this failure.
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Meanwhile, future-focused consumer advocates seem to be giving CMS a free pass on its current failure to provide a basic, reliable and usable tool.
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Ms. Merkel, acknowledging the failure so far to complete the Doha Round of trade negotiations, also expressed support for a free-trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union.
Asking too-big-to-fail banks to write resolution plans in the event of their failure is like giving an obese eater a free pass to neighborhood buffets and demanding that he draft a diet plan in case he dies.
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But failure to strike a any deal would have put at risk not just what would would be the biggest free-trade deal of its kind in over a decade, but also the stalled global trade talks known as the Doha Round, which are being held under the auspices of the World Trade Organization.
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