The measure of Mr Bush's failure to tackle this issue seriously is his continued rejection of the only two clean and efficient solutions to climate change.
But it also says much about two other things: the fatigue of the Concertacion, the centre-left coalition that has governed the country since 1990, and the failure of all Chile's politicians to tackle the issue of campaign finance.
It is on the issue of failure, however, that the thornier questions still lie.
There are no published Western estimates of the numbers involved, which, in itself, is evidence of our failure to address this key issue, but even the occasional tidbits provided by official Saudi sources, indicate a campaign of unprecedented magnitude.
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"The frustration with the federal government's failure to deal with the issue of illegal immigration resulted in passage of a flawed state law, " Suns managing partner Robert Sarver said in a statement.
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham agreed, noting that the failure of successive politicians to deal with the issue had led to a "developing care crisis".
The issue contributed to the failure of the last serious attempt at immigration reform in 2007, and Schumer and Graham sought to head off such an outcome this time around by asking chamber President Tom Donohue and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka to work together.
At the same time, it was a dismal failure because it did not address the issue of refueling.
"This is the result of the failure of the Japanese government to resolve a domestic issue as it had promised to do, " said Kunihiko Miyake, a former foreign ministry official who is now a research director at the Canon Institute for Global Studies.
Singling out the Football Association (FA), he accused it of an abject failure to do enough to tackle the issue.
These cases also cover the gamut of federal agencies and departments, along with a few examples on the state and local level, showing that no segment of our government holds a monopoly on failure on this issue.
This seems an amazing failure of due diligence, but only if the researchers had intended to issue a balanced and factual report.
Although I am also skeptical of church leaders and well aware of the hierarchy's long-standing failure on the abuse issue, Francis' first 30 days have led me to agree with Anderson when it comes to the new pope's personality.
Venture capital firm CMEA Capital has been sued for sexual harassment, retaliation and failure to prevent harassment by three former female employees, raising the issue of gender in the venture capital industry once again.
Pat Caddell is right that the Republican failure during the campaign to frame the national security issue properly - including the horrifying prospect of a Hastings chairmanship of the Intelligence Committee - is substantially responsible for the fact that there will be an acute lack of security-minded leadership in the 110th Congress.
To be sure, there are plenty of stories from the liberal-left that pull no punches: John Judis in a recent issue of the New Republic presents a reasoned dissection of the administration's failure to engage in the theatricality of populism, which FDR so ably did in similarly dire circumstances.
That failure means that investors and researchers will zero in on the HDL analysis published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
So, too, while Clinton was blaming him for the failure of the peace process, Netanyahu was at the UN using his speech to the General Assembly to issue yet another plea to Abbas to renew peace talks with Israel.
The other issue, which may be even more important, deals with the failure to control the growth of government spending.
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The computer failure affected the entire Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) group, but Ulster Bank took longest to resolve the issue.
In truth, the Italian experience is consistent with the findings of a growing body of academic literature on the issue: fiscal adjustment dominated by tax increases typically is a recipe for failure: It fails to stabilize the debt and it is more likely to cause economic contractions.
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Talks between the EU and Iran on the nuclear issue have been off and on for a number of years, with the last round ending in failure in January last year.
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