In the startup world, a popular game is to predict the next imminent failure.

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None of us are predicting the imminent failure of that policy.

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Yet the commission's recommendations are a bit like prescribing chemotherapy for a tumour while ignoring signs of imminent heart failure.

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"Neither one means failure is imminent or that your life is in danger or that you should be afraid to get in your car, " he said.

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