Fearful of monetary or societal failure, many hope that owning gold will bring them peace of mind.

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Their failure to inquire further puts one in mind of ostrich tactics of failing to inquire for fear that the inquiry might reveal stronger evidence of their scienter regarding the authenticity of the confidential source than the flimsy evidence of scienter they were able to marshal against Boeing.

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But while A Rod the human can while away his down time by flirting with pretty women in the stands, his equine counterpart has no such diversion to take his mind off his failure on the field of play.

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In his mind, the low pay and risk of failure at a startup would beat the months of fruitless toil he experienced during a recent internship at France Telecom.

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To tarry over raising dividends, never mind suspending them, was seen as a confession of failure.

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But that leaves open the question of why any person in his or her right mind would allow a failure to communicate to occur in the first place.

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The drive contains no moving parts, decreasing the risk of data loss due to shock and vibration, and its mean time between failure (MTBF)4 greatly exceeds that of hard disk drives, giving users peace of mind that it will retain their files for the long term.

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