Last year, 940 schools, a sixth of the total, suffered failure rates of 80% or more.
Certain business sectors have historical high failure rates and are routinely avoided by investors.
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Current failure rates suggest 50% to 75% of entrepreneurs likely won't succeed, and may lose their savings.
That decision usually determines success or failure rates to traders, because one can develop a deer-in-the-headlights look.
At first blush, BLS figures suggest that failure rates are consistent across industries.
His clients in biotech, such as Bristol-Myers Squibb, Abbott Laboratories and Genentech, struggle with high failure rates and huge costs.
Even in systems that have been tested and repaired, overlooked glitches are producing failure rates of up to 15%, says Morris.
Caletti, who'd heard horror stories about the scarring and failure rates common to sinus surgery, was reluctant to go under the knife.
But Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland all want exemptions for sophisticated weapons with low failure rates or small numbers of submunitions.
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So how can you overcome this nasty little devil of a roadblock and avoid becoming one of those depressing statistics on failure rates of startup businesses?
Some economists chalk up failure rates to other factors, such as location, the experience level of management teams and whether companies are able to nab venture funding.
They rates banks based on customer satisfaction, stability (state-by-state failure rates), availability of high interest rates, and size of the banking community (more choices is better).
This leads to declining returns and high startup failure rates.
Several show failure rates in excess of 90%.
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"Potentially the system could make the process of drug creation more efficient by reducing failure rates in testing and showing chemists which of the potential thousands of solutions would be best-suited to their problem, " he added.
About five years ago, Intel had a program for explaining to companies how PC failure rates rocketed after three years and how productivity could be greatly improved by changing out the whole fleet on a regular basis.
Craig Funke, chief executive and part owner of Equiguard, which provides warranties to the heating and cooling industries, says geothermal units' failure rates, including both equipment failure and bungled installs, are equal to those of conventional equipment.
Unless the SEC and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority craft strong rules, Mr. Abshure said, a combination of fraud, high failure rates for startups and an "inevitable advertising onslaught of pie-in-the-sky offers" will kill investor confidence in buying shares online.
Enterprise Ireland is making a huge bet on an industry fraught with risk and high failure rates but there is little doubt the government believes the rewards could be significant if the start-up ecosystem can become a vibrant, self-sustaining sector and, in the process, produce successful entrepreneurs that go on to start and finance more companies.
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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.
Mrs Boddy, who ran Lulu's Boutique in Fisherton Street, blamed location, parking charges and business rates for her failure in Salisbury.
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The University of California, San Francisco, offers house calls and a special program for heart-failure patients, who have the highest rates of re-hospitalization.
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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.
DIW, one of Germany's major economic research institutes, on Thursday criticised the ECB for its failure to consider unemployment data in determining interest rates.
After the failure of a German bund auction, interest rates began to climb in Germany, and so did Japanese rates that have been near zero for almost a decade!
The delays are due to a failure of some universities to set their tuition rates until late this summer, which pushed back their ability to send enrollment certifications to the agency, according to a Veterans Affairs spokesman.
The bank's persistent failure, especially during 2002, to cut interest rates in response to sluggish economic performance across the euro area (and above all in Germany) has drawn criticism from within Europe as well as from America's Federal Reserve and international institutions.
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