Yet ironically, as Microsoft slowly improves the security of its products by, for instance, incorporating firewall technology, anti-virus systems and spam filters its actions increasingly start to resemble those that, in the past, have got the firm into trouble with regulators.

ECONOMIST: Microsoft

Hardly more than a handful of individuals, really, despite the mountains of evidence collected by the feds, have got into any kind of serious trouble and, as far as I know, none have had to pay much of their bonuses back.

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In recent months the number of arrivals has increased and several boats have either sunk or got into trouble.

BBC: Australia to send asylum seekers to Nauru this week

Certainly, it resembles the fiscal policies that have so often got Venezuela into trouble in the past: spend like crazy when the oil price is high, and slam on the brakes when it plummets.

ECONOMIST: Venezuela on a gusher | The

Four people have been rescued after they got into trouble in the sea off the north Antrim coast.

BBC: Four in sea rescue

That has led to unusual movements in debt and equity markets, which have only got some funds deeper into trouble.

ECONOMIST: The crisis of confidence

Does anyone doubt that if any of them got into trouble the government would again have to come to their rescue?

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The mutual society got into trouble when it miscalculated how much it would have to pay out for its Guaranteed Annuity Rate (GAR) life insurances policies.

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"Southwest got into trouble saying, if you are too big, you have to buy two tickets, " says Dr. Adam Pilarski, an airline consultant at Avitas.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Retail banks may have less to change operationally (their funding profile is the obvious exception) yet they still got into a ton of trouble.

ECONOMIST: The revolution within