Quality circles fell from grace as they were thought to be failing to live up to their promise.

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It is the same lesson learned, albeit on a smaller scale, by certain other big time football programs when their head coaches fell from grace.

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Prostate cancer, once a research backwater, is suddenly sexy thanks to the work of one patient: Michael Milken, the Wall Street wizard who fell from grace in the late Eighties and found redemption in a medical miracle.

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Dell, HP, Nokia and Research in Motion all reigned supreme in their product categories for long periods of time, and fell from grace hard because they did not notice or react quickly to the disruptions in technology around them.

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Then it fell from grace.

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But then she fell from official grace.

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Woods, arguably still golf's biggest star despite his fall from grace in the past two years, fell foul of the sport's disfavor for phlegm in February 2011 during a frustrating final day at the Dubai Desert Classic.

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