If you failed to meet the targets set in a conditional acceptance for university or college you can still go into clearing.
If you never failed at anything, you would never be forced to take action to course-correct or try new ways to seize opportunities previously unseen.
You know you have failed if, after five minutes, you are panting as if you had been running a marathon and it seems that your heart is about to pop out.
But if you only lose 4, have you failed?
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"As I said to our new Brigadier General Corps when I spoke to them about two weeks ago, 'You can do everything from this point forward in your military career perfectly, but if you fail on this, you have failed the Army, ' " McHugh reportedly said.
What if Steve Jobs failed to ask what if you combined technology and design to create the ultimate customer experience?
In fact, if you read the FDIC Failed Bank Information Sheet, it all seems rather unremarkable.
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If, however, you failed to report 20% or more of your true gross income, the IRS has six years to get to you.
But the phrase had been in earlier use in England in the 1700s, where brokers on the London Stock Exchange called you a lame duck if you tried to go on trading securities after you had failed to make good on settlement.
Ergo, if you bought the stock on the IPO but failed to flip it, you are now sitting on a paper loss of 21%.
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So what should you do if your bank has failed or is in trouble?
What do you do if you are in a fix, having failed to abide by the rules?
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If you happen to be a customer of a failed bank, the FDIC maintains a Failed Bank List with information on the acquiring bank, if applicable, and how your loans and accounts are affected.
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If you ever go into an interview without knowing what quotes you want to see, you have already failed miserably.
If you are found to have willfully (intentionally) failed to timely disclose a material fact as required on the Form U4, that conduct can expose you to a statutory disqualification.
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If you are found to have wilfully (intentionally) failed to timely disclose a material fact as required on the Form U4, that conduct can expose you to a statutory disqualification.
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Remember, if you always get everything you want, and accomplish everything you set out to do, then you've failed anyway.
Mr. BILLY PRUHOSKA (Engineer): Well, if I design that wall and it failed like this one did, and you had that many people killed, I could go to jail for negligent homicide, more than likely.
But I sort of feel that, you know, if Thomas Edison were in the school system today, he wouldn't have failed 10, 000 times before that one time that he figured out the real one - you know, the answer to the question.
If the people who failed to claim the rebate primarily came from low income families, would that cause you any misgivings?
Money is great, but if all you see of your growing kids is when the nannies are feeding them breakfast and dinner, you have failed.
The defenders of that maneuver argue that if Bear Stearns had failed it would have created a lot of collateral damage, so much collateral damage, that you and I, normal folk who don't know anything about high-falutin' financial instruments like "collateralized debt obligations" would have been engulfed as well.
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