In the meantime, Rangers carried on through alternating periods of on-field failure and success.

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Just recently, we issued a press release announcing that Siemens has shipped over 100, 000 systems with our memory into the field without a single failure.

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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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The colossal failure cast a pall over the good cholesterol field and raised questions over whether doctors understand how good cholesterol works.

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The Webster report on the Fort Hood shooting identified numerous problems in several areas including information sharing, failure to follow up on leads, failure of FBI headquarters to settle differences between the two field offices working the Hasan leads and computer technology issues.

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Even after its regulatory problems, the company is a leader in the field of implantable cardiac defibrillators, devices that are implanted in heart-failure patients.

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"The failure to inform headquarters adequately, and in a timely manner, contributed to miscommunications between the field and headquarters and between the United Nations and member states, " said Joseph Connor, undersecretary general for management, who wrote the report.

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Failure to follow that up risks leaving even attentive readers with a false impression of progress in the field.

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