The failure test described above involves so much force that a special footing needed to be constructed, involving 90 tons of rebar, and 1650 cubic yards of concrete (involving continuous pour from 165 trucks).
Little problems added up and nobody understood how a failure in one test might indicate a serious problem.
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Of course, the recent failure of the test of a missile interceptor over the Pacific has given comfort to these people.
Rumours in F1 suggest the crash test failure could delay the debut of the car further until the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in September.
With those risks, inevitably, goes the chance of failure in the test program and the need to adapt designs, build work-arounds and make modifications to subsequent production articles.
Failure of a test usually means an instant short spell in jail, and it is hoped that such a dramatic sentence will shock people out of re-offending - thereby reducing long-term prison numbers and cutting off alcohol-related crime at the source.
What may offer the England team some encouragement ahead of Thursday's final Test was the collective failure of three of India's Test batsman.
They put themselves into such stories to understand how success and failure happened and to test what they would do.
Physicians have long argued that failure to perform a test even when the value of such a test is statistically borderline can place the Doc on the wrong side of a costly medical malpractice suit should things go in an unexpected direction.
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The nation's nuclear forces will be allowed to atrophy further through: a failure to modernize, test and properly maintain them and further cuts in their numbers - including in all likelihood the elimination of an entire "leg" of the Strategic Triad.
Russian parliament member Alexei Arbatov said the test's failure didn't add up to much, but warned against the political consequences of proceeding with the program.
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Given the failure of the most recent test, in July, and the diplomatic flak the administration had run into, going ahead would have seemed perverse.
At the time, U.S. officials and independent experts considered the test somewhat of a failure.
But the US state department is deeply involved in how Libya develops, and that will be the true test of the success or failure of Barack Obama's policy.
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Fail fast: As overall startup costs decline and markets move much more quickly, it has become easier to test ideas without devastating consequences of failure.
With the help of four other hospitals in Australia, the researchers plan to test the device in 30 heart failure patients awaiting a heart transplant.
Come January 1st, Japan's failure to do more will be a good test of whether everyone else was right to have worried so much after all.
Lord Warner said that "where there is clear provider failure...it seems sensible to test the market to find the best set of arrangements for replacing the failed incumbent".
After the game, Law backed Flintoff's inclusion in the England squad for next week's first Test against New Zealand - despite his failure to score in either innings against Durham.
Other issues she will have to deal with include the implementation of the teachers' workload agreement for England and Wales, the growth of specialist schools and city academies, plans for optional extended school hours - and the government's repeated failure to meet its targets for England's test and exam performance.
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Interesting to learn in retrospect that the real ethical breach surrounding the first test tube baby was a good old fashioned failure to achieve informed consent.
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The program has an uneven track record of success a major test of the system in 2010 was deemed a failure but it has recently turned in better results and MDA is committed to maintaining 30 interceptors plus associated radars and command systems at locations in Alaska and California.
Fear of failure is rampant among students who have been drilled in standardized-test taking, he says.
The test of a great leader, though, is how that failure is handled.
The company sees this as an over-the-counter disposable cartridge that can test for pregnancy complications, preeclampisa, gestational diabetes, kidney failure and urinary tract infections.
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Most of the technical issues covered in the report, such as the failure of a crucial cement seal and the misinterpretation of a key pressure test, have been raised by other investigations.
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The case was a challenge to a firefighter test that had a wide range of difference between the pass and failure rate of different groups.
It was a welcome knock for the Middlesex batsman, who was dropped for the pre-Christmas tour to Sri Lanka because of his failure to convert starts into big scores and has had a run of 25 Test innings without reaching three figures.
In essence, I believe this was not a failure of the drug or the mechanism but a failure of us as investigators to make sure we had sufficient disease in our population upon which to test our hypothesis--somewhat akin to trying to show one antibiotic is better than another or even a placebo, but selecting a population with no infection!
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