Frankly, I hope it fails, but I worry that Sony, along with Nintendo and Microsoft, are going to bring this in as an industry wide project.

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But to denounce it in advance, and hope it fails?

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He could make it six in Brazil on Sunday in his final race before retirement but needs to win at Interlagos and hope championship leader Fernando Alonso fails to score a point.

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But it is a massive gamble, and, if it fails, the Kurchatov has no hope of adapting itself to other kinds of work.

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DirecTV and EchoStar are making another stab at the FCC, but if that fails the satellite guys can only hope for passage of a Senate bill cosponsored by John Ensign (R-Nev.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) that would require cablers to sell all programming regardless of how it is transmitted.

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"If this uprising fails, the people's only hope dies, " said Sarwar Khan, a resident of Andar, one of the most dangerous districts in the volatile province of Ghazni, in Afghanistan's southeast.

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They remain in talks with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs over a deal which they hope will lead to action being dropped but if their appeal against the petition fails, they could be placed into liquidation.

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