Stock transactions are supposed to settle within three days, and if the shares fail to be delivered to the buyer, that failure is reported to the SEC and to the national stock markets, which keep track of repeated trade failures.
Too-big-to-fail banking could have been the failure of regulators and lawmakers in another decade, as Mr. Weill suggests.
Netflix has learned to never fail the same way twice and actively tests failure to automate recovery for the future.
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The two main aims of the new laws are to make banks less likely to fail in the first place and, if failure is inevitable, to make it less painful for others.
"Systemic risk" (the risk that the failure of one financial institution could cause other interconnected institutions to fail and harm the economy as a whole).
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If you fail in some or all of these duties and your failure is serious enough, the matter can become criminal.
Khosla himself usually turns down speaking engagements engagements, so it is a window into his emphasis on failure and its lessons that he accepted the invitation to be a speaker at Fail-Con, a conference held in San Francisco that analyzes ventures that have failed and the lessons they learned in the process.
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"Many in this chamber understand that America must not fail in Iraq, because you understand that the consequences of failure would be grievous and far reaching, " he said.
Contrast that with the stench of failure in the drug industry, where experimental medicines are more likely to fail than succeed, and pharmaceutical developers like Pfizer have seen their biggest bets bite the dust.
Bad work habits and the failure to change course contribute to the statistic that more than half of small businesses fail within the first five years, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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Contrast that with the stench of failure in the drug industry, where experimental medicines are more likely to fail than succeed, and pharmaceutical developers like Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) have seen their biggest bets bite the dust.
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.
"The failure of Greece, " he said, "would be the failure of all Europe... it is not possible to let Greece fail, for moral and economic reasons".
The argument rests on anecdote, on the current failure, and on common sense, which says that a producer-driven system insulated from parents and children will fail.
It has taken a while for the management to recognise that England's approach to one-day cricket is more tentative and shackled than most of their opponents, and while it is always possible to over-attack, it would be preferable to see them fail while trying to lift their game than to watch the batsmen prodding about and apparently frightened of failure.
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