This will have been a failure that costs a lot to put right.
Creative failure, bloated costs, the emergence of new technology and new competitors.
Some of the sponsors of 401(k) plans, such as Deere and Boeing, are being sued by participants alleging failure to monitor costs and other fiduciary breaches.
Companies will hire workers if their failure to do so costs them new business.
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Yet, because the costs of failure are so high, it is also essential to get rid of an underperforming boss.
His clients in biotech, such as Bristol-Myers Squibb, Abbott Laboratories and Genentech, struggle with high failure rates and huge costs.
So the US taxpayers will not be receiving much of a return on their investment due to failure to pay the costs of maintaining their investment.
And the Spanish government will hold you personally liable for many of the costs of that failure.
Senior management evaluated the proposal and decided that the risks of failure did not warrant the costs: Nokia did not pursue development of the phone.
Are the costs of our failure there real and potentially disastrous?
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Depending on how far below the industry failure rate Merck gets, its costs could be even lower.
Put another way, within 30 years, failure to account for these hidden costs will understate the true burden of health entitlements by more than one quarter.
The WarpDrive card also helps to minimize hardware requirements, reducing initial investment costs and eliminating points of failure for greater overall system reliability.
Another anti-economic aspect of the Kyoto protocol, in addition to its silence on trading, was its failure to put a cap on the costs of abatement: countries undertook to meet their targets regardless.
Every clinician has his or her own way of doing things, and the rates of failure and complication (not to mention the costs) for a given service routinely vary by a factor of two or three, even within the same hospital.
Whether the USC remains its former glory remains to be seen, what is for certain is that their mighty downfall will serve as a warning to universities and other organizations that the illusion of success propped by a win at all costs philosophy can lead only to failure and suffering.
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This initiative was immediately criticized for its failure to assume an adequate federal responsibility for the costs of, for example, rehabilitating existing airports and building new ones.
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For all the costs of a rescue, the cost of failure to the economy would sometimes be higher.
The social costs of family breakdown, welfare dependency, educational failure, crime, anti-social behaviour, drug and alcohol addiction are impossible to calculate.
The price rise is to offset additional costs faced by Guernsey Electricity after a cable link failure to France forced it to produce on-island power.
The stalemate unnerved financial markets and there is concern that a failure to tackle economic problems could lead to a rise in borrowing costs and more instability for the eurozone's third largest economy.
Residential electrical bills from some local utilities still go to paying off the costs of the project, which remains the largest municipal bond failure in U.S. history.
He said the "current obesity epidemic in children and adults represents a clear example of market failure" with taxpayers having to pick up the bill for healthcare and other costs.
While the private sector assumes responsibility for capital costs and the risks involved such as cost and time overruns in construction or failure to deliver an agreed level of service, the local authority in return commits to regular payments.
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In 2010, MSPs said the public agency's failure to take account of risks to the running of the funicular railway led to "spiralling" costs.
This unwillingness and failure to segment the Chinese market has led to an ever more vicious cycle of rising user acquisition costs for startups.
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But note that lock-in is inefficient (that is, it is a kind of market failure) only if the inferior product survives despite the fact that the benefits of switching would exceed the costs.
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