There is a real risk that the FDA could field a weak team and fail to settle the considerable public safety arguments about these drugs.

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Going wireless risked security and production troubles: People might toss them onto the field or the wireless signal might fail.

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But Mr Field predicted that the secretary of state's proposals would fail to deal with the current "crisis", for which both the current and predecessor governments were to blame.

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We fail to pay attention to the changes going on in our field because we are disconnected.

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The travel sector is as bouncy as the high-tech field, if for somewhat different reasons, but it is easy to fail in either.

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In my field we have scores of models that are extremely good at explanation but which fail at prediction because some tiny parameter has been left out.

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In an effort to stress the importance of having realistic expectations, Field drew comparisons to entrepreneurs in the first world, where as many as one in three startups fail.

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The very biggest U.S. financial institutions seem to have attracted a force field around them, guaranteeing that there is at least a limited subset of banks that are too big to fail.

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