Your success or failure will directly affect the careers of the managers who were responsible for your deal with consequences to the bottom line that will last for years.

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Skeptics might point to the federal assault weapons ban (a section of the 1994 Violent Crime Control Act) that Congress let expire in 2004 as a failure that did not affect overall homicide rates.

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At least that's the contention of Jane Healy, an educational psychologist and author of Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds and What We Can Do About It.

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Using the example of restaurants, the restaurant sector is robust because the failure of any one restaurant does not affect the others.

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"The failure to buy health insurance doesn't affect anyone, " Mr. Carvin said.

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They also state that "such a failure to achieve targets was likely adversely to affect those candidates' prospects of selection onto the panel of local government candidate able to be selected".

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It is essential to evaluate the roles and failure modes of cloud services in your application, and how they affect durability and availability.

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They could in the future make attacks directly on satellites, perhaps, and a failure to react to these specifically in the budget and the modernization programs will obviously affect our ability to respond.

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