Superpremium vodka connoisseur and importer Sidney Frank died of heart failure a few weeks later.
Despite all the naysayers who were predicting failure a year ago, our economy is growing again.
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"He's been on the verge of failure a dozen times and always pulls back from the cliff, " Schulman says.
Students receive constant pressure since elementary school and a failure at the university entrance exam means a failure to have a bright future.
Most prominently, teenager Jesse Gelsinger died from multiple organ failure a few days after receiving a massive dose of virus-based gene therapy in a trial at the University of Pennsylvania.
Early in the year, a Soyuz rocket carrying an unmanned Progress spacecraft suffered a launch failure, a failure that had some concerned that NASA might decide to leave the International Space Station without a crew.
But we do know that this tragedy was triggered by a failure at the Upper Big Branch mine -- a failure first and foremost of management, but also a failure of oversight and a failure of laws so riddled with loopholes that they allow unsafe conditions to continue.
New leaders often fail for a few common reasons: due to unclear or outsized expectations, a failure to build partnerships with key stakeholders, a failure to learn the company, industry or the job itself fast enough, a failure to determine the process for gaining commitments from direct reports and a failure to recognize and manage the impact of change on people.
While declining to comment on any specific cases, banks or countries, Keneally ticked off several reasons why a taxpayer might be disqualified from the program after originally being accepted, including a failure to cooperate or a failure to alert the U.S. government (as required by law) that he or she was contesting a foreign summons.
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Is it really a failure to execute or a failure to give innovations enough execution focus compared to the core business?
Preventable disease is not a failure of medical science but a failure of our health care system.
For Verizon, a failure to complete the deal means a failure to take out an aggressive price competitor.
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Even so, Dr Williams was accused of a failure to lead, that is a failure to command, cajole and coerce Anglicans.
Once branded a failure and a symbol of corporate greed, the company has reported profits during the last two years while repaying government loans.
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And empty space gives rise to painful feelings. (For me, I felt antsy, unproductive, like a failure and a fraud) Rather than experience the pain, we fill up the spaces.
If the regulating valves fail or if the cabin structure is breached (by a failure of a door or window for example) then the pressure in the cabin would suddenly drop to match the outside air pressure.
The judge ruled there had been a failure by a public inquiry inspector "properly to interpret and apply the relevant planning policies on the effect of development on the setting of heritage sites, which meant that the balancing exercise was flawed".
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This piece of legislation would have the hopefully unintended consequence of criminalizing a failure by a doctor and prosecuting a doctor for criminal behavior if he or she were somehow to fail to intuit the motivations of a patient in making a very private medical decision.
Losing a job always feel like a big failure, so in that sense I have failed, but I now know that failure is a precursor to success, and often, being open to failure leads to success.
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When trading stopped last week, the failure of a single trader led to the failure of the market as a whole.
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For others a manager may address how failure is a means to an end, and while no one sets out to failure, learning from the experience can make the individual stronger and a better contributor.
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In essence, I believe this was not a failure of the drug or the mechanism but a failure of us as investigators to make sure we had sufficient disease in our population upon which to test our hypothesis--somewhat akin to trying to show one antibiotic is better than another or even a placebo, but selecting a population with no infection!
Obama would have America accept increased regulation because, in an equality of opportunity society, if individuals do not get a good outcome, it is a failure of the system, a market failure.
Rather than a failure to collect or share intelligence, this was a failure to connect and understand the intelligence that we already had.
The report also found police failed to follow up "basic" lines in the inquiry, including a failure to obtain statements from the victim or eyewitness, and a failure to arrest and interview Grant while examining his car.
In August, a Soyuz failure on a mission to resupply the space station led to a six-week suspension of flights.
For most of the 1980s and early 1990s, Britain's splendid isolation was not so much a policy failure as a permanent condition of life in Europe.
But investigators are focused on a failure of the train tracks themselves, as opposed to an error by engineers or a failure of the train's signal system.
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