Dependency on a single company is interesting when exploring the risks that a single instance of corporate mismanagement (or strategic failure, or organizational misfortune) could cause severe economic damage.

ECONOMIST: One-firm economies: The Nokia effect | The

Some may defend the policy as an instance of robust unilateralism, but the failure of the administration's multilateral and regional initiatives was not a price that had to be paid to defend America's interests: on the contrary, those failures directly harm the American economy.

ECONOMIST: American economic policy

In IVAN, for instance, there was just one case of heart failure among 296 77-year olds randomized to Avastin versus 3 cases among the 314 77-year olds randomized to Lucentis.

FORBES: Blinded By Savings? Is Cost Trumping Risk On Blindness Drug?

Your efforts to get to Philly based on your misunderstanding about your starting point are almost certainly doomed to failure (those pesky oceans, for instance, are going to be a real shock).

FORBES: How You Might Be Seen As Untrustworthy...And Not Even Know It

Many factors determine success (or failure) in professional sports--injuries, for instance--regardless of talent level.

FORBES: The Biggest Draft Flops In Sports

Attempts to set up local stations in the past on analogue television - for instance the little-remembered Lanarkshire TV in the late 90s - ended in failure.

BBC: Deadline passes for Glasgow and Edinburgh local TV bids

Dr Noble and Dr Winslow, for instance, have been studying how the cellular changes that lead to congestive heart failure and ischaemia (two common heart complaints) can cause arrhythmia.

ECONOMIST: Model behaviour

For instance, my JACC journals: blue for the mother journal, red for heart failure, green for interventions, etc.

FORBES: Our Limitless Capacity For Self-Deception